Watch the Strata Livestream and Videos
The Livestream is available at the Strata website. Keynotes and interviews will be happening most of the day Thursday. If you would like to watch some of the videos and …
Read MoreMonth: February 2013
Code.org – Helping you learn to code
Code.org is a site focused on helping people learn to code. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360%5D Thanks to my friend, Clay Campbell, for introducing me to this video.
Read MoreLatex Documents Online
Although not specific to data science, if you write a lot of documents with mathematical notation, you are probably familiar with $latex \LaTeX$. $latex \LaTeX$ is a typesetting system common …
Read MoreIt is Strata Week
The Strata Conference 2013 starts today, February 26, 2013. Beginning Wednesday, many of the keynotes will be live-streamed, so you can still follow along even if you (like myself) are …
Read MoreData Scientist: Consider the Curriculum
A while back James Kobielus wrote the article, Data Scientist: Consider the Curriculum. It contains one of the best descriptions of a data science curriculum I have seen. Also the …
Read MoreFirst 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 …
Read MoreNYU Launches New Center For Data Science
New York University has just launched some Data Science programs via the new Center for Data Science. … to establish the country’s leading data science training and research facilities at …
Read MoreQuandl – A Search Engine for Datasets
I just found this site a couple days ago. Quandl is a new startup that is a search engine for datasets. The site really has a lot of data (over …
Read More12 Useful Tips for Machine Learning
Pedro Domingos of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington provides a very useful paper with tips for machine learning. The paper is title, A …
Read More10 R packages
Yhat, a new predictive modeling startup, wrote up a nice blog post about 10 R Packages I wish I knew about earlier. It is worth reading through the list. Special …
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