Tag: big data
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Free Big Data MOOC
Coursera is offering the course Mining of Massive Datasets from Stanford University. This is a popular course at Stanford and goes along with the book by the same name. The FREE course starts September 29, 2014, and runs for 7 weeks. The prerequisites are some SQL, algorithms, and data structures knowledge. Thanks to David Trower…
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What is Big Data? from datascience@berkeley
Jenna Dutcher, community relations manager for the datascience@berkeley online master’s program, interviewed more than 40 thought leaders to answer this one simple question: What is big data? (Full disclosure: I was honored to be asked to provided a definition on the list.) The answers are quite diverse and definitely worth reading. I thought Hal Varian,…
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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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Huge List of Big Data and Machine Learning Technologies
Onur Akpolat has put together A curated list of awesome big data frameworks and resources. The list is very extensive and includes: NoSQL databases, machine learning libraries, frameworks, filesystems and more. On a similar note, Joseph Misiti has compiled a large list of machine learning specific resources. The list is titled, Awesome Machine Learning, and…
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Big Data Jobs Are Booming…And So Are the Salaries
Lots of Big Data Jobs iCrunchData, one of the most popular data science job sites, keeps an index of the data science job market. Recently, the index just passed 500,000 big data jobs posted online. That is a phenomenal number, and it just goes to show the massive need for more people with big data…
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Big Dive – Data Science training in Italy
Big Dive is a 5-week Big Data training program offered in Italy. The program is not free, but it has a great layout of topics. The program focuses on 3 main themes: Development Visualization Data Science Big Dive runs from early June to mid-July, and the admissions deadline is April 27, 2014.
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Big Data Startup Investments [Infographic]
This infographic is packed with good data. I especially enjoyed the section about big data startups that were acquired in 2013. Courtesy of: BigData-Startups
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Security And Data Science
The topic of internet security has been around for many years, but recently the topics of data science and security have joined forces. Many security applications collect vast amounts of data. Also, many security application operate based upon activity. Data Science can help collect all the past activity and machine learning can be used to…
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7 Important Data Science Papers
It is back-to-school time, and here are some papers to keep you busy this school year. All the papers are free. This list is far from exhaustive, but these are some important papers in data science and big data. Google Search PageRank – This is the paper that explains the algorithm behind Google search. Hadoop…
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Free Big Data Analytics For Dummies eBook
Alteryx is offering the book, Big Data Analytics For Dummies, for free. If you are new to the term big data, this book provides a brief (about 40 pages) overview of the topic and what big data should be able to do for your company. You have to register, but it is worth it for…
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An extensive glossary of big data terminology
Are you ever confused about some of the terms dealing with big data? If so, here is a link for you. It provides countless big data terms and a brief definition. Big Data Startups | An extensive glossary of big data terminology.