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Cloudera Wants to Fund Hadoop Projects
Seriously, if have a startup that uses hadoop, you should get in touch with Mike Olson of Cloudera. Read more
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Informative Big Data Video
A nice, short, 2 minute video from edCetra Training with some good facts about big data and data analysis. The digital universe is 10 times the size it was in 2006 Greater literacy and cloud computing are helping fuel big data 80% of companies data is unstructured – difficult to analyze Employees spend 2 hours per Read more
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Probabilistic Graphical Models Starts Today
The Coursera Probabilistic Graphical Models course officially starts today. Sign up and start learning. Read more
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What does Google Know About Spelling?
Google with Incorrect Spelling Just the other day, I was googling for “strata conference” information. I noticed that I had mistakenly typed “starta” instead of “strata“. I proceeded to backspace the incorrect letters and fix the spelling. Later in the day, I also noticed that I frequently mistype the letters “ar” and “ra”. That got Read more
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6 Machine Learning Algorithms
6 Machine Learning Algorithms Read more
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Kaggle Makes Data Science Fun
The tag line for Kaggle is “We’re making data science a sport.” They have successfully created a way to turn data science into a competition. It is both fun, and it yields excellent results. There is also a portion of the site dedicated for classroom use. It is called Kaggle in Class. Here is how Read more
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Visually Launches
Yesterday, Visual.ly launched a new way of creating infographics. It claims to be able to “create free customizable infographics in seconds.” I have not tried it yet, but it is on my todo list. Read more
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Natural Language Processing Starts Today
The Coursera Natural Language Processing course officially starts today. Sign up and start learning. Read more
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16 Companies Hiring Data Scientists Right Now
Data Scientist is the hot new job for 2012. Does this job really exist? Who hires these people? Are companies currently hiring? The answers are: yes, lots of companies, and yes. I decided to spend last night looking for companies that are currently hiring data scientists. It did not take long to compile a pretty Read more
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Learning Statistics for Data Science
Statistics – This is a topic that could use some more attention from the online community. I would love to see Stanford (or Coursera) offer a free statistics course online much like the other free courses online. I did find a series of Youtube videos by Daniel Judge, a Professor in the East Los Angeles Read more
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Data Scientist – Career of the Future
Data Scientist – Career of the Future This link provides a great Infographic about data scientist career opportunities. Read more
Data Science 101
One of the oldest blogs on data science, started in 2012.
Threads Dev Interviews
Interviews with Developers on Threads