Tag: data
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What is a Data Hackathon like?
Here is a video of the final presentations of a data hackathon. You can watch the pitches, questions, and winners. If you are considering attending a data hackathon, this video should give you a good idea of what to expect at the end of a hackathon. This video comes from the Critical Data Marathon held…
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Process Mining Course via Coursera
Process mining is a bridge between data mining and business process modeling. Process Mining can be used to study event and log files to extract meaning. The Coursera course, Process Mining: Data science in Action, starts November 12, 2014.
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Zipfian Academy Launches New Fellowship and Data Engineering Programs
Zipfian Academy, the company that offers the 12-week immersive training for data science, has just announced 2 new programs. Data Fellows 6-Week Fellowship – A free and intensive program to fill in your knowledge gaps and match you up with a top company. Hurry, applications are due today (June 16, 2014). Data Engineering 12-Week Immersive…
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Scientific Data: A new publisher of Data
Nature.com is starting a new publication titled, Scientific Data. The goal is to help researchers publish and discover data. The publication content is called a Data Descriptor. It describes the data, explains the data collection methods, lists the columns, and states other essential information about the dataset. Unfortunately, the site does not host any of…
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Data Gotham 2013 Videos
In case you do not live in New York City or you did not attend Data Gotham, do not worry because nearly all the videos and talks are posted on the Data Gotham 2013 Youtube page. Below is a panel discussion on data and privacy.
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Beyond Alphabet Soup: 5 Guidelines For Data Sharing
Beyond Alphabet Soup: 5 Guidelines For Data Sharing is an excellent post by Markets for Good and Palantir Technologies. Below are the 5 Guidelines. Release structured raw data others can use Make your data machine-readable Make your data human-readable Use an open-data format Release responsibly and plan ahead See the full blog post with detailed…
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Mixpanel Data Conference 2013
Mixpanel is hosting Data Driven Conference 2013 on July 31, 2013. It is not exactly a conference, but more of an “fireside chat” with some the leading data technologists. The conference will take place on the afternoon of July 31, 2013, at the Mixpanel Headquarters in San Francisco. The cost of attendance is $100. The…
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Open Data Festival
Launching in the autumn of 2013, Open Data Festival will be hosting a global data festival. The details are quite vague at this point, but they are looking for volunteers, cities, and speakers. Feel free to sign up. The festival is being organized by the same team that organizes Big Data Week.
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R Commands for Cleaning Data
This post is notes from the Coursera Data Analysis Course. Here are some R commands that might serve helpful for cleaning data. String Replacement sub() replace the first occurrence gsub() replaces all occurrences Quantitative Variables in Ranges cut(data$col, seq(0,100, by=10)) breaks the data up by the range it falls into, in this example: whether the…
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Pizza Delivery: A video Infographic
This is a video infographic about pizza delivery in Manhattan. This is another good way to make data tell a story.
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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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Startup Showcase – How did I do?
Yesterday, I made some predictions about the startups I thought would win at the Strata Startup Showcase. Here are the winners. Fred Wilson selected Placed Tim O’Reilly selected Privacy Analytics The audience selected Hadapt So how did I do? Well, I got one of the winners correct. I selected Placed. Hopefully videos of the demos…