Category: Learn Data Science
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Free Stats book for Computer Scientists
Professor Norm Matloff from the University of California, Davis has published From Algorithms to Z-Scores: Probabilistic and Statistical Modeling in Computer Science which is an open textbook. It approaches statistics from a computer science perspective. Dr. Matloff has been both a professor of statistics and computer science so he is well suited to write such…
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Do’s and Don’ts of Data Science
Don’t Start with the Data Do Start with a Good Question Don’t think one person can do it all Do build a well-rounded team Don’t only use one tool Do use the best tool for the job Don’t brag about the size of your data Do collect relevant data Don’t ignore domain knowledge Do consult…
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Data USA Visualizations
DataUSA.io a huge collection of visualizations displaying U.S. public data. It is fun to browse the visualizations, plus there is also an API.
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Google Announces Public Data Sets
Somewhat lost in the hype of Google’s Cloud Machine Learning announcement (which is itself neat), was the release of Google’s Public Data Sets. I think this has been previously happening, but now Google has an official location for these public data sets stored in BigQuery. You can: Access and use the data in your applications…
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Midwest Undergraduate Data Analytics Competition
The 2016 Midwest Undergraduate Data Analytics Competition (MUDAC) will be held at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota on April 2 and 3. What is MUDAC? MUDAC is an intense 2-day analytics competition aimed at undergraduate students. Teams compete to solve a problem posed by an external organization. Who can compete? Teams of 3 to…
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Data Society – A new Data Science Learning Platform
If you are looking to learn data science but do not have the time or money for a full master’s degree, Data Society might be your answer. Data Society is an online data analysis skills training program that is designed by educators and curated by data science experts. The learning experience is online and includes:…
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Data Science and IoT Course
Want to learn about data science and the Internet of Things (IoT)? Futuretext is about to start Data Science for Internet of Things. It is a course aimed at people looking to learn the topics and transition into IoT and data science careers. Here are some quick highlights about the course. Starts Mid March 2016…
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The Human Face of Big Data – Debuts Tonight
The Human Face of Big Data makes its debut tonight, 2/24/2016, on PBS (if you are in the United States). Hopefully it will be available via the PBS website fairly soon. http://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365663059
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Introduction to Microsoft R Open (Webinar)
Tomorrow, January 28, 2016, David Smith will present a webinar titled Introduction to Microsoft R Open. David is the R Community Lead at Microsoft. The webinar will discuss: Introduction to R History of R Enhancements of Microsoft R Open (Microsoft’s enhanced distribution of open-source R) CRAN Time Machine Reproducible Data Analysis If you are looking…
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Yahoo Just Released a Huge Machine Learning Dataset
Yahoo just released a 1.5 TB dataset of “anonymized user interactions on the news feeds”. If you have been looking for a new dataset to analyze, this just might be it. It contains approximately 110 billion rows of data regarding user-news interactions. Happy data exploring!