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Data Science Important To Tech Innovations
Inc Magazine recently reported on 6 Major Tech Innovations for 2012. I was surprised to see how much influence data science has on the list. I would say 4 of the 6 technologies are data science related. Predictive Technology – Data Science and Statistics are the driving force here, along with all the data that Read more
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Startup Idea: A Search Engine For Recent News
The Problem I have a problem. This is a problem that I would guess many other people have. I have access to way too much information. I want less, but I also want the best and newest. How do I find the best and newest information on any topic? There is a lot of new Read more
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Making Data Tell A Story
Jer Thorp gives a nice Ted Talk about making data more useful to humans. Jer is really good at making data tell a story. Watch the video to learn some more about what he does with data. He also mentions an app he helped build. It is called OpenPaths, and it allows iPhone users to Read more
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Python For Big Data
Travis Oliphant, the CEO of Continuum Analytics gives a nice presentation on Python and BigData. He argues that python is frequently used in bigdata, but it does not get a lot of attention from the bigdata community. The bigdata community only wants to talk about hadoop. Travis would like to see python have a larger Read more
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Data Scientist Job Analysis
A few weeks ago, I posted 16 Companies Hiring Data Scientists Right Now. I decided to do a bit of analysis on the job posts, so I took all the job posting and compiled them into one file. The Problem I wanted to determine 2 things: What words occurred most often in the job posts? Read more
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Highlights of the White House BigData Research Initiative
Yesterday’s announcement included a few main highlights: NIH will make 200TB of human genetic variation data freely available on Amazon Web Services NSF will provide $2M in support of undergraduate education for studying graphical and visualization techniques of bigdata DoD will announce some prize competitions in the coming months Numerous other projects to increase data Read more
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White House is Announcing $200M BigData Research Initiative
White House is Announcing BigData Initiative Read more
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List of Free Courses Online
Having trouble keeping track of what schools offer what courses for free online? Problem solved! Class Central maintains a updated list of courses from Coursera(Stanford), Udacity, MITx, and others as they become available. Not all of the courses are related to data science, but I still thought it was valuable to share the link. Check Read more
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Use Data Science to Help The World (Data Without Borders)
Data Without Borders Jake Porway started Data Without Borders because he attended a hack-a-thon and the groups came up with apps that didn’t really better the world very much. I believe he used the word, “unfulfilling” to describe the apps. He decided to create a way to provide organizations (Government or non-profit) with access to Read more
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Think Stats – An Online Statistics Book For Programmers
Previously I mentioned that online statistics learning resources are not abundant. Well, here is a new online book for learning statistics. It is geared towards programmers, and it looks to be a great fit for people wanting to learn data science. Here is a small excerpt from the Preface: It emphasizes the use of statistics Read more
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Digital vs Brain Knowledge
By 2075, digital data will surpass all the data in human brains. Read more
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Data Storage Infographic
The US and Europe store a lot of data! Read more
Data Science 101
One of the oldest blogs on data science, started in 2012.
Threads Dev Interviews
Interviews with Developers on Threads