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The Data Science Interview: Edwin Chen, Twitter
I don’t do pure research—my analysis enables real-world functionality Currently mining terabytes of tweets as a data scientist with Twitter, Edwin Chen studied math and linguistics at MIT and then crunched numbers at Peter Thiel’s hedge fund, Clarium Capital Management. … Continue reading
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Top 5 Data Science Influencers: July 1, 2012
1. Vincent Granville, AnalyticBridge,@analyticbridge 2. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets 3. Christopher Berry, The Analytics Revolution, @cjpberry 4. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru 5. Harish Kotadia, Infosys, @HKotadia Source: Traackr
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The Data Science Interview: Yun Xiong, Fudan University
The Goal of Data Science is to Study the Phenomena and Laws of Datanature Yun Xiong is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and the Associate Director of the Center for Data Science and Dataology at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. … Continue reading
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Big Data Quotes of the Week
“Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?”—Pat Gelsinger, EMC “You have to realize something about the three of us–we’re all big gamers. And we’re analytical. And competitive. We play those really complicated strategy board … Continue reading
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Top 5 Data Science Influencers: June 24, 2012
1. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets 2. Harish Kotadia, Infosys, @HKotadia 3. David Smith, Revolution Analytics, @revodavid 4. Gil Press, What’s the Big Data? @GilPress 5. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru Source: Traackr
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Big Data Quotes of the Week
“The world is one big data problem. There’s a bit of arrogance in that, and a bit of truth as well.”–Andrew McAfee “…one of the most exciting parts of the LinkedIn platform and the LinkedIn ecosystem is that the more … Continue reading
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Top 5 Data Science Influencers: June 17, 2012
1. Harish Kotadia, Infosys, @HKotadia 2. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets 3. Avkash Chauhan, Microsoft, @avkashchauhan 4. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru 5. Gil Press, What’s the Big Data? @GilPress Source: Traackr
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Coursera: Data Science in Education
Monica Rogati in The LinkedIn Blog on Coursera, which offers free online courses: “Coursera’s approach to feedback and assessment is a very interesting application of data science. Tests are either computer-graded or peer-graded — the latter following industry tested crowdsourcing best … Continue reading
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The Data Science Interview: Mok Oh, PayPal
To Do Data Science, You Need a Team of Specialists Currently the Chief Scientist at PayPal, Mok Oh came on board when eBay acquired WHERE, where he was Chief Innovation Officer. Prior to WHERE, Mok founded EveryScape, a data visualization … Continue reading
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Top 5 Data Science Influencers: June 10, 2012
1. Harish Kotadia, Infosys, @HKotadia 2. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets 3. Avkash Chauhan, Microsoft, @avkashchauhan 4. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru 5. David Smith, Revolution Analytics, @revodavid Source: Traackr
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