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5 Low-Profile Big Data Startups
5 Low-Profile Big Data Startups Here are 5 startups that are doing some serious data science. Read more
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More Free Courses from Stanford
Also this spring, Stanford will be offering two more courses that might benefit a person learning data science. Probabilistic Graphical Models – combining ideas from statistics, probability, and computer science to solve really hard problems…sounds neat Natural Language Processing (NLP) – performing algorithms on human language and strings If you feel these 2 classes might… Read more
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Science will use gaming for crunching data
Science will use gaming for crunching data This is an interesting article about how science will use online-gaming to solve some of sciences most difficult questions. Players think they are just solving Read more
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What Makes a Good Data Scientist?
Jeremy Howard is the Chief Scientist at Kaggle. At the end of this interview, from the Strata Conference 2012, he identified 4 simple traits that a data scientist needs. Creativity Open-mindedness Tenacity A Good Skillset Jeremy Howard of Kaggle at Strata 2012 In this brief interview he covers a range of other data science topics:… Read more
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Did You Miss Strata 2012?
The Strata Conference Making Data Work for 2012 just finished up. If you (like me) were unable to attend the conference, you may have missed out on some of the networking and excitement of actually being at the conference, but you can still glean some knowledge from the videos. Steve Schoettler “Learning Analytics” This is… Read more
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Machine Learning on Big Data
Max Lin of Google Research provides a great slide deck. The title is self-explanitory. Machine Learning on Big Data View more presentations from Max Lin Read more
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Link to Data Science Infographic
This infographic does a great job of displaying what a data scientist does and what skills are needed. Just click and check it out for yourself. Read more
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Need A Data Scientist? Probably
In the article Do you need a data scientist?, the following questions get answered: What data scientist’s do? Who makes a good data scientist? When is the right time to hire a data scientist? Hopefully, I will discuss each of these questions in more detail in a later blog post. To answer the question, if… Read more
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205 Million Dollars of Funding For Big Data Startups
It is a great time to be working on a startup in the Big Data arena. First the topics of big data and data science are really popular in the tech world right now. Second, it appears that investors are interested as well. Below are two examples: Accel Partners formed a $100 million fund for… Read more
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Stanford Machine Learning Class – What is covered
A few days ago, I mentioned that the Stanford Machine Learning class will be starting soon. I thought I should quickly mention some of the topics covered. The list also serves as a great outline for machine learning. Supervised Learning In supervised learning, one has a set of data with features and labels. Linear Regression… Read more
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Another Big Data startup launches. Read more
Data Science 101
One of the oldest blogs on data science, started in 2012.
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