Tag: bigdata
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Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity | McKinsey & Company
Big Data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity | McKinsey Global Institute | Technology & Innovation | McKinsey & Company. This report by McKinsey & Company is frequently referenced, so I thought I should post a link to it. It includes the following quote about the lack of talent to fill Big Data…
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College Graduates Not Ready For Big Data
This infographic displays the need for colleges and universities to start preparing more data science graduates. Browse more infographics. Graduates Not Ready For Big Data
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Making Data Tell A Story
Jer Thorp gives a nice Ted Talk about making data more useful to humans. Jer is really good at making data tell a story. Watch the video to learn some more about what he does with data. He also mentions an app he helped build. It is called OpenPaths, and it allows iPhone users to…
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Python For Big Data
Travis Oliphant, the CEO of Continuum Analytics gives a nice presentation on Python and BigData. He argues that python is frequently used in bigdata, but it does not get a lot of attention from the bigdata community. The bigdata community only wants to talk about hadoop. Travis would like to see python have a larger…
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Highlights of the White House BigData Research Initiative
Yesterday’s announcement included a few main highlights: NIH will make 200TB of human genetic variation data freely available on Amazon Web Services NSF will provide $2M in support of undergraduate education for studying graphical and visualization techniques of bigdata DoD will announce some prize competitions in the coming months Numerous other projects to increase data…
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White House is Announcing $200M BigData Research Initiative
White House is Announcing BigData Initiative
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5 Low-Profile Big Data Startups
5 Low-Profile Big Data Startups Here are 5 startups that are doing some serious data science.
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What Makes a Good Data Scientist?
Jeremy Howard is the Chief Scientist at Kaggle. At the end of this interview, from the Strata Conference 2012, he identified 4 simple traits that a data scientist needs. Creativity Open-mindedness Tenacity A Good Skillset Jeremy Howard of Kaggle at Strata 2012 In this brief interview he covers a range of other data science topics:…
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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…