Category: Video
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A Data Science Career with Kirk Borne, Free Webinar
Once again, The Data Incubator, is hosting another Data Science in 30 minutes webinar. This one features the career of Kirk Borne. Renowned data scientist, Kirk Borne will take viewers on a journey through his career in science and technology explaining how the industry-and himself have evolved over the last 4 decades. Starting with skipping…
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Deep Learning in 2015 at Oxford
Nando de Freitas taught a deep learning course at the University of Oxford. All of the videos are freely available. The playlist is a bit out of order, but starting with Lecture 1 is probably the best technique.
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Strata + Hadoop World 2014 Videos
John Rauser from Pinterest gives one of the more popular talks from the Recent Strata Conference + Hadoop World. The following quote from his talk might peak your interest enough to get you to watch the entire video. Remember, he is speaking to a room with some of the leading data scientists in the world.…
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Hans and Ola Rosling: How not to be ignorant about the world
Once again, Hans tells a great story with data.
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CMU Machine Learning Summer School Videos
It was a 2-week intensive course focused on machine learning for big data. Some of the top academics in machine learning gave presentations. Most of the videos are fairly long (around 1 hour each), but a whole lot of material is covered. All the CMU Machine Learning Summer School Videos are on Youtube. Here is…
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Learn Sabermetrics – The Theory of Moneyball
Would you like to learn the secrets behind the baseball movie, MoneyBall? Lucky for you, EdX is offering just the course for you. And it is free! Sabermetrics 101: Introduction to Baseball Analytics. Hurry up, the class starts Thursday, May 29, 2014. If you have never seen the movie Moneyball, you need to watch the…
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Strata Conference 2014 Keynote Videos
The keynote videos from the 2014 Strata conference are now available on the Strata Youtube Channel. Here is a thought-provoking video about data science for sports.
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SciPy 2013 Videos
The videos from the SciPy 2013 conference are all available online. See all the videos at the Lanyard SciPy 2013 Conference Directory. Here are a few of my other favorite videos: SciPy 2013 Keynote: IPython: the method behind the madness SciPy 2013 Keynote: The New Scientific Publishers Reproducible Documents with PythonTeX; SciPy 2013 Presentation Julia…
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Making Data tell a Story
I don’t think anybody does it better than Hans Rosling. In the following video he helps to explain population growth, child mortality, and fossil fuel usage based upon wealth. I love how he uses toy blocks and chips to help visualize his point. See the original post from the Guardian, Hans Rosling: the man who’s…
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Hans Rosling: The Joy of Stats
Hans Rosling does an excellent job of showing how “not boring” statistics can be. This is a great informative statistics video. It was originally posted at The Joy of Stats. The Joy of Stats from Gapminder on Vimeo.
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Religion and the Number of Babies: A Hans Rosling TedTalk
Hans Rosling does it again. Hans may be the best storyteller of data on earth. He has a real gift of turning data into an exciting story. He also asks great questions and has some good wit. The whole goal of this TedTalk is to answer the following question. Do women of certain religions have…