Tag: video
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Data and Innovation Video
Jeff Hammerbacher, founder and Chief Scientist of Cloudera, gives a nice talk about data science. He explains what he has done in the past, and what he plans to do in the future. It is the second video, I have posted recently, emphasizing the importance of data science for more than just advertising. Jeff is…
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Hadoop World/Strata Conference
The 2012 edition of Hadoop World and Strata Conference is underway. The conference is in New York City and if you are not lucky enough to attend, then at least you can watch the live video feed.
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Alasdair Allan Strata 2012 London
Alasdair Allan gives a very entertaining talk. I love what he did with his hotel room lock, or rather what he “absolutely not under any circumstances …” did with his hotel room lock.
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Jake Porway of DataKind
Jake Porway of DataKind gives another entertaining talk. This one is more of a Superhero story. Just watch the video, and it will make sense.
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Data Science for the NFL
This video was different than I expected. I expected to hear how the National Football League (NFL) is using player statistics for better player acquisition and fantasy football. However, the talk was about the NFL business model. The business model of the NFL focuses on filling stadiums. Thus the NFL starting collecting data about why…
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Video: Big Data Summit – Training data scientists – 11 Jul 2012 – Computing News
This is a nice video discussing some good ideas when training data scientists. It does have an academic perspective. Video: Big Data Summit – Training data scientists – 11 Jul 2012 – Computing News.
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Data Science – Beyond Intuition
Thomas Thurston put together a very nice video about data science, its uses, and the possible impacts. Data Science – Beyond Intuition from Thomas Thurston on Vimeo.
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Coursera Ted Talk
Daphne Koller of Coursera gives a very intriguing TedTalk. She even throws out some good data. The machine learning class would have to be taught on-campus for 250 years to reach the same amount of students enrolled in the online class last fall. Here are some other impressive numbers. 640,000 students 190 countries 1.5 million…
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The Data Scientific Method
DJ Patil and Josh Elman, both of Greylock Partners, give an insightful talk at LeWeb London 2012. The most important part was the introduction of the Data Scientific Method. Data Scientific Method Start with a Question Leverage your current data Create features and run tests Analyze the results and draw insights Let the data frame…
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Religion and the Number of Babies: A Hans Rosling TedTalk
Hans Rosling does it again. Hans may be the best storyteller of data on earth. He has a real gift of turning data into an exciting story. He also asks great questions and has some good wit. The whole goal of this TedTalk is to answer the following question. Do women of certain religions have…
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Informative Big Data Video
A nice, short, 2 minute video from edCetra Training with some good facts about big data and data analysis. The digital universe is 10 times the size it was in 2006 Greater literacy and cloud computing are helping fuel big data 80% of companies data is unstructured – difficult to analyze Employees spend 2 hours per…