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Easel.ly Launches For Creating Infographics
Easel.ly recently launched. It is a site for easily creating infographics. It looks pretty simple, but I am still not sure I have the artistic skills to make a good looking infographic. Infographics are still great for telling the story of your data. Read more
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Free Online Strata Conference
May Strata 2012 will occur online this year. The cost is zero, and the event is tomorrow (May 16, 2012). The only catch is that you must register first. The entire conference is scheduled to take place in the morning, so the format looks quick. Judging from other Strata videos I have seen, I would… Read more
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Data For Good
We can no longer continue to build development projects without thinking about data, anymore than we could without thinking about a budget. By Jake Porway of DataKind. This is another good video about the the social problems that DataKind is hoping to solve. Source: Code For America: Big Data For The Public Good Read more
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Healthcare, BigData, and Startups
Healthcare is starting to see the value of data science. Here are 2 data science events aimed at generating value for healthcare. Call for Startups – HealthStartup III on Big Data This is an event for connecting healthcare, startups and investors in Europe. Health 2.0’s Boston Big-Data Code-a-thon This event starts today. It is a… Read more
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Be A Data Rat
In this video, Jeff Hammerbacher of Cloudera mentions that good data scientists are “data rats.” Athletes are often considered “gym rats” if they spend a lot of time in the gym, so Jeff believes “data rats” need to spend a lot of time with data. Having a high level of curiosity is very important. Jeff… Read more
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Data Scientists Get Ranked – NYTimes.com
I’ve never had a Google account, and I pay to use e-mail […] I know how much information they can collect, and how much people can learn from your clicks. by Sergey Yurgenson, one of Kaggle’s top competitors as listed in this article from the NewYorkTimes.com, Data Scientists Get Ranked. The article does also list… Read more
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Amazon: Era Of Data Centers Ending – Cloud-computing – Infrastructure as a Service – Informationweek
Amazon appears to believe that in about 20 years, nearly all enterprises will run their computing systems in the cloud. I would have to agree with them. This article is worth a look, especially the paragraph about Pinterest running completely on AWS. Amazon: Era Of Data Centers Ending – Cloud-computing – Infrastructure as a Service… Read more
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Data Visualization Links
I recently ran across the following articles about data visualization. iPad for Visualizations – Microstrategy has created an iPad app thats can be used for the analysis of bigdata. Big Picture of BigData – How visualization can be applied to the 3 Vs of bigdata (Volume, Velocity, Variety) The Explanatory Power of Data Points –… Read more
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Where is the World’s Data being Stored?
What types of media store the most data? Where are the world’s 10 largest data centers? Check out this infographic for the answers. See the source at Mozy Read more
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edX – Online Education From Harvard And MIT
Just yesterday, MIT and Harvard University announced a new partnership to offer online education. The goal is to increase learning for students on-campus and others throughout the globe. Both schools plan to study the results of edX to better understand how students learn and how technology affects learning. See the official announcement here. EdX Video… Read more
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The First Ever Data Scientist
It’s probably not who you think. It’s not DJ Patil or Hilary Mason. The first data scientist was Tobias Mayer. Who? Yeah, that’s exactly right, I had never heard of him either. Thankfully, John Rauser, a Data Scientist at Amazon, gave a great talk about this person at Strata New York 2011. Well, Tobias was… Read more
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