Tag: algorithms
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Analytics vs Data Science
The lines between analytics and data science can definitely be very blurry. Different companies might call the same position by two different names, but at their core, they do have some differences. Below is an infographic from the faculty of the Online MS in Analytics at American University. I think the infographic is accurate. In…
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Top ten algorithms in data mining (2007) [pdf] | Hacker News
Top ten algorithms in data mining (2007) [pdf] | Hacker News. The discussion below the link is also very good. If you are curious, here are the 10 algorithms, and the paper is displayed below. C4.5 k-Means SVM Apriori EM PageRank AdaBoost kNN Naive Bayes CART
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6 Machine Learning Algorithms
6 Machine Learning Algorithms
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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…
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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…
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What is a data scientist?
If I am going to create a blog about becoming a data scientist, I must at least provide some type of definition. One of the best definitions I have read is by Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist at Bit.ly, A data scientist is someone who can obtain, scrub, explore, model and interpret data, blending hacking, statistics,…