Tag: journal
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2015 Summer of Data Science Learning
The twitter hashtag #SoDS is being used in 2015 to help people track and share what they are learning. The hashtag originated on the Becoming Data Scientist blog. I recently wrote a post for Sense about a number of freely available learning opportunities this summer, Start Learning with the Summer of Data Science. The post…
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Data Scientist’s Guide to Startups – Round Table Discussion
This discussion was held at the KDD 2013 Conference in Chicago. The title says it all. Here is the full discussion. A Data Scientist’s Guide to Start-Ups The following people were involved in the discussion. Foster Provost – Professor at NYU Geoffrey I. Webb – Research Professor at Monash University Ron Bekkerman – Assistant Professor…
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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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Big Data Journal: 5 articles to highlight
The inaugural issue of Big Data was published a few weeks ago. The journal is excellent. The articles are relevant, readable, and free. In the first issue, most of the articles were not super technical (meaning there was not a lot of equations or algorithms). I would like to highlight just 5 of the articles…
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Definition of Big Data
Big data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems. The data is too big, moves too fast, or doesn’t fit the strictures of your database architectures. To gain value from this data, you must choose an alternative way to process it. This definition is provided by Edd Dumbill, Editor-in-Chief of Big…
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First Issue of Big Data Journal
The very first issue of Big Data Journal is out. All the articles are freely available for download. The titles and authors of the articles look quite good. I will probably be posting more as I read through some of the articles.
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Data Science Journals
Journal Title Price EJP Data Science Free CODATA Data Science Journal Free Journal of Data Science Online Free Big Data Journal Free JDS (focuses heavily on the applications of data.) Free GigaScience (focuses on life and biomedical science) Free
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New Data Science Journal
Springer has just release a new data science journal named EPJ Data Science. The journal is open access which means that articles are freely available online. That catch is that people whom submit articles must pay a fee for publication. Sometimes the fee will be covered by the author’s university or company. Anyhow, if you…