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  • Online Adds Are More Important Than Social Networking For Consumers? Huh?

    Marketers should target customers that share a lot on social networks. Or not! I found it interesting that Twitter and Facebook were in the bottom 5 list of influences for the social consumer. I would have expected it to be different. Search results, brand websites and online adds are all more important. This is one Read more

  • Global Data Hackathon

    What is being hyped as the First Global Data Hackathon is scheduled for April 28-29, 2012.  The event is being organized by Data Science London.  BoostTurku in Finland is organising a group for the Hackathon event. See the website at Datathon. Read more

  • A Data Science Curriculum

    This is not intended to be mapped to a set of college courses. It is intended to be a listing of necessary skills for a data scientist. For a definition of data scientist, see this previous post. Mathematics Calculus – not directly important to data science, but the knowledge is important to understand the statistics Read more

  • Tell Someone About Data Science

    Please spread the word about why data science is important. If you are excited, others will be too. If you are not sure what to say, here is a list of possible topics. What can you tell people about data science? Calculate Insurance Premiums Find a Date – OKCupid Cure Cancer, Diabetes, AIDS, or other Read more

  • STEM Graduates Quit Because The Material Is Difficult

    STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Due to the difficulty of STEM degrees, it appears many students abandon the degrees in college. While this fact is not surprising, it is still concerning. Our country and world need more good people with STEM skills. A STEM degree is not essential to becoming a data Read more

  • Learn To Code

    Coding (a.k.a. computer programming) is not the primary function of a data scientist, but some coding skills are necessary. Modifying machine learning algorithms or scaling/altering data are both good examples of when writing a few lines of code could be very beneficial. Well, if you have desire to learn to code, then there is no Read more

  • Open Source Online Statistics Book (OpenIntro)

    OpenIntro is an organisation that was started to create a free and open source introductory statistics textbook.  The book is available as a free PDF download, or it can be purchased in paperback from Amazon for less than $10.  If you want to learn statistics or need a little refresher, check it out. Read more

  • Data Science Courses

    Data Science CoursesThis is a nice collection of data science related courses offered at various colleges and universities. It is on a wiki page so you are free to ad Read more

  • College Graduates Not Ready For Big Data

    This infographic displays the need for colleges and universities to start preparing more data science graduates. Browse more infographics. Graduates Not Ready For Big Data Read more

  • Do You Need College To Be A Data Scientist?

    With some of the top tech entrepreneurs in the U.S. either dropping out of college or not attending, there is some debate about whether college is the right choice or not. This post will focus on college for data science. However, for college in general, if you know what you want to study, then college Read more

  • Colleges with Data Science Degrees

    Colleges with Data Science Degrees

    Colleges and Universities are slowly starting to notice the demand for employees with data science skills. Most of the programs are not named data science, but they all focus on producing data people. Below are a couple of the programs I have noticed so far. As of September 2014, a new list with sorting and Read more

  • Data Science Education Week

    Yes, I just declared this week as Data Science Education Week. As far as I know, I have no authority to do such a thing. Hey, I did it anyway. All week I will be posting information related to data science education. So, pull up a chair and get ready for some serious data science Read more

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