Category Archives: Big Data Analytics
Big Data Quotes: Imagination, Automation, Benefits, Bias
“Big data will never give you big ideas… Big data doesn’t facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim … Continue reading
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6 Myths of Big Data: Kate Crawford on Data Fundamentalism (Video)
Kate Crawford at DataEDGE 2013: “Data is something we have to imagine” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_WScJu40mU&w=560&h=315] 6 myths of big data Big data is new Big data is objective Big data won’t discriminate Big data makes cities smart Big data is anonymous … Continue reading
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Big Data Friday
Today Dmitry kidnap by terrorist. Ransom note say “Deliver 10 millions dollar or we make him program in R.” From new book “50 Shades of #bigdata”: “His disk drives throbbed and pulsated, struggling to update the weights of the regression … Continue reading
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Big Data Quotes: Data Science is Like Crack
“…data science is more like crack. Businesses want more not when it’s held entirely out of their reach but when they’ve been allowed to successfully smoke a little. Then they’re hooked… Data scientists’ job security is bound up in industry … Continue reading
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A Practical Introduction to Data Science Skills (Video)
Google’s Michael Manoochehri at DataEDGE 2013 presenting an introduction to data analysis and suggestions for how to become a data scientist (his notes for the presentation are here). [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpwZ_i-9U0o&w=560&h=315]
Big Data Quotes: Einstein, Come Back When You’ve Got Data
“Big data is what happened when the cost of storing information became less than the cost of making the decision to throw it away”—George Dyson (quoted by Tim O’Reilly) “If the engineers have their way, every idea, memory, and feeling—the … Continue reading
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Big Data Quotes: Disruptive Innovation?
“By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body. For example, there is a drug that is marketed by Elan BioNeurology called … Continue reading
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Big Business Doing Big Data (Video)
Paul Barth, managing partner at NewVantage Partners, on the results of a survey of large companies and their big data activities, at The Economist‘s Information Summit on June 4th 2013 in San Francisco.
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The History and Future of Predictive Analytics and Big Data (infographic)
Source: A Look at the History and Future of Predictive Analytics and Big Data infographic
Big Data, Small World: Kirk Borne at TEDxGeorgeMasonU (Video)
Kirk Borne is Professor of Astrophysics and Computational Science in the George Mason University School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences (SPACS). Turns out he is the father of the term “unknown unknowns” – things we do not know we … Continue reading
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