Tag: cloudera
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Cloudera Machine Learning Slides
A very nice slidedeck from Jeff Hammerbacher of Cloudera. It goes over k-means clustering and some enhancements. 20130521mlmeetup from Jeff Hammerbacher
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Top 5 Places to Get a Data Scientist job
LinkedIn They turn data into products better than anyone else. Facebook If you are the type of person that loves to analyze people’s lives, there is no better place. Twitter Duh, It’s Twitter. lots of data and lots of possibilities Cloudera Cloudera is a successful Hadoop-based startup. Build tools and explore huge datasets for a…
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Top 5 Data Startups
Kaggle They make data science a sport, enough said. DataKind DataKind may not technically be a startup because it is a nonprofit, but they are doing cool stuff. They match nonprofit organizations with people that love to analyze data and create visualizations. Cloudera They call themselves “The Platform for Big Data”. They are working hard…
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How To Learn Data Science?
Based upon the popularity of a previous post about a certificate program from the University of Washington, it appears that many people are interested in learning the skills necessary to become a data scientist. Thus, I decided to compile a list of some of the possible learning strategies. Traditional College Education The most obvious path…
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Be A Data Rat
In this video, Jeff Hammerbacher of Cloudera mentions that good data scientists are “data rats.” Athletes are often considered “gym rats” if they spend a lot of time in the gym, so Jeff believes “data rats” need to spend a lot of time with data. Having a high level of curiosity is very important. Jeff…