Tag: bigdata
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Data Startup Showcase
As part of New York City Big Data Week, a startup showcase is being offered. It will consist of 14 startups. Each startup will get to give a quick demo/presentation. Then Tim O’Reilly and Fred Wilson will select 3 winners. Also, numerous investors and journalists will be present. A complete list of the startups presenting…
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Big Data E-Learning Programs
The International School of Engineering is launching 2 new online programs. Both are certificate programs and last 7 or 8 weeks. Both programs just started this week. Engineering Big Data with R and Hadoop Ecosystem This program will cover Hadoop, R, map reduce and NoSQL Essential Predictive Analytic Techniques: What Every Aspiring Data Scientist Must…
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Big Data in the (Heated or Cooled) Air Around You – NYTimes.com
This is a nice article about using Machine Learning and BigData with the thermostat in your home. The company, Nest Labs, is doing some cool things. Big Data in the (Heated or Cooled) Air Around You – NYTimes.com.
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Legos and Big Data
Recently, the family and I visited a LEGO store. We were given a pamphlet that contained some interesting numbers. More than 4,000,000 million people will play with LEGO bricks this year There are an average of 62 LEGO bricks per person on Earth 5,000,000,000 (yeah thats 5 billion) hours per year are spent playing with…
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BigData and College
This infographic is somewhat related to the previous infographic I posted. The first paragraph under point #1 is worth noting. Schools now have the ability to collect massive amounts of data; they just need to analyze it to acquire useful information. Presented By: OnlineDegrees.org
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Gamification, Education, and BigData
This is a nice infographic about gamification in education. I am curious to watch how gamification plays a role in the online education scene at places like Udacity and Coursera. I think gamification is going to lead to many new and interesting problems in bigdata. Created by Knewton and Column Five Media
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Two Relevant Coursera Courses Starting Today
Web Intelligence and Big Data – Artificial Intelligence, NoSQL, map-reduce!! Oh My! I think this course will have some really good information. Gamification – From the first glance, this course may not directly relate to data science. However, gamification can lead to better user engagement which can lead to tons more data for prediction. I…
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Data Collective: Big Data Investment Fund
Data Collective is a new investment fund. It is strictly for early-stage Big Data startups. See the TechCrunch announcement for more detailed information.
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Big Data for Organization (Infographic)
Here is a nice infographic about some challenges of big data. It covers the problems that organizations face when dealing with the “three Vs” of big data. Volume Variety Velocity Learn about data visualization software. Big data
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Free Textbook: Mining of Massive Datasets
A few professors from Stanford University have released version 1.1 of their textbook, Mining of Massive Datasets. The book has been created from materials used for a couple of Stanford computer science classes including large-scale data-mining and web mining. The book looks excellent and really focuses on the analysis of data at a large scale.…
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New Web Intelligence and Big Data Coursera Class
Thanks to Ed for leaving the comment yesterday. I have reposted the comment here because I thought it was so good. Looks like Coursera added a new data science course entitled “Web Intelligence and Big Data” while nobody was looking! Plus, it starts at the end of the month, for those who can’t wait until…