Tag: bigdata
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Machine Learning on Big Data
Max Lin of Google Research provides a great slide deck. The title is self-explanitory. Machine Learning on Big Data View more presentations from Max Lin
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205 Million Dollars of Funding For Big Data Startups
It is a great time to be working on a startup in the Big Data arena. First the topics of big data and data science are really popular in the tech world right now. Second, it appears that investors are interested as well. Below are two examples: Accel Partners formed a $100 million fund for…
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Machine Learning – Big Data – Hadoop
http://ec2-50-17-219-147.compute-1.amazonaws.com/wordpress/2011/07/26/machine-learning-against-big-data-with-hadoop/ This is a nice post by Socketware
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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,…
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The impact of Big Data on the World
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/sunday-review/big-datas-impact-in-the-world.html?_r=2&hpw= A great article on data science appeared in the New York Times over the weekend. It is worth your time to read it.