Videos
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Sense.io Launches Data Science Platform to the Public
Sense has launched to the public today, March 18, 2015. Sense is an online data science platform providing you the capability to easily perform your entire data science workflow via a browser. No need to provision new servers or install software, just click “New Project” and start your analysis. The Sense platform includes the following…
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Open Data is Important For Cities
Ben Wellington gives an excellent Ted Talk on open data. He argues that cities need to make more of an effort to release data in a standardized and machine-readable format. This could help cities be safer and fiscally responsible. He is hoping New York City sets the standards for open data for cities. As a…
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National Data Science Bowl
Kaggle and Booz | Allen | Hamilton have just launched the National Data Science Bowl. It is a data science competition hosted at Kaggle. If you are interested in getting started, a tutorial is available in iPython format. Best of Luck!
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Wisdom from Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton recently did a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything). It contains some good information related to neural networks and deep learning. Also, below is a lengthy video of a distinguished lecture Geoffrey gave at the Toyota Technological Institute in Chicago.
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Considering Julia? Here Are Some Resources
Julia is a new programming language that is quickly gaining traction in the statistics and data science world. It is a high-level language, yet the speed is comparable with lower-level languages like C and fortran. Below are some resources for various types of people. Do you love the academic paper? Julia: A Fresh Approach to…
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Strata + Hadoop World 2014 Videos
John Rauser from Pinterest gives one of the more popular talks from the Recent Strata Conference + Hadoop World. The following quote from his talk might peak your interest enough to get you to watch the entire video. Remember, he is speaking to a room with some of the leading data scientists in the world.…
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Hans and Ola Rosling: How not to be ignorant about the world
Once again, Hans tells a great story with 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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Big Data is Better Data?
Kenneth Cukier, Data Editor of The Economist and co-author of Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, gives a wonderful talk about data. It is well worth the 15 minutes.
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Deep Learning in Java
Deep Learning is the hottest topic in all of data science right now. Adam Gibson, cofounder of Blix.io, has created an open source deep learning library for Java named DeepLearning4j. For those curious, DeepLearning4j is open sourced on github. Below is a video of Adam introducing deep learning and DeepLearning4j. Also, if you are interested…