Category Archives: Data Science
The Big Data Meme: 5 Scenarios for IT
In today’s New York Times, Steve Lohr surveys the rise of big data as a term and as a marketing tool, from “the confines of technology” to the mainstream. “The Big Data story is the making of a meme,” says … Continue reading
A Very Short History of Data Science
I’m in the process of researching the origin and evolution of data science as a discipline and a profession. Here are the milestones that I have picked up so far, tracking the evolution of the term “data science,” attempts to … Continue reading
Current Salaries for AI Professionals and Data Scientists
A new salary survey of AI professionals and data scientists finds unprecedented annual increase in compensation for data analysis skills and experience. Read More
My First Venture in Data and its Analysis
Discovering the benefits of digitization and the data it produces in a 1980 Israeli supermarket. Read more
Posted in Computer History, Data Science, Digitization
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Data Scientists In Growing Demand, Survey Says
73% of data science and analytics teams planned to hire in Q1/Q2 of 2021 and 81% planned to hire in Q3/Q4 of 2021. Read more
The Data Index, March 2021
Data is eating the world and there are numerous indicators of its ubiquitous presence in our lives. Read more
Best of 2019: Data is Eating the World
[June 30, 2019] Data is eating the world. It has been the most important tech trend since the 1990s. But to paraphrase Robert Solow, “You can see data everywhere but in the Internet statistics.” The most astute and influential observers … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Big Data Analytics, Data Growth, Data is eating the world, Data Mining, Data Science
Tagged Marc Andreessen, Mary Meeker
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KDD 2020 Opens Call for Research and Applied Data Science Paper Submissions
ACM SIGKDD Invites Industry and Academic Experts to Submit Advancements in Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning for 26th Annual Conference in San Diego Read more here
Posted in Data Science, Data Science Careers, Data Science Education, Machine Learning
Tagged KDD
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Translating Between Computer Science and Statistics
Terence Parr: “I am a computer scientist retooling as a machine learning droid and have found the nomenclature used by statisticians to be peculiar to say the least, so I thought I’d put this document together. It’s meant as good-natured … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Data Science, deep learning, Statistics
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Logistic Regression in R: A Classification Technique to Predict Credit Card Default
Logistic regression is one of the statistical techniques in machine learning used to form prediction models. It is one of the most popular classification algorithms mostly used for binary classification problems (problems with two class values; however, some variants may … Continue reading
Posted in Data Science, Data Science Careers, Data Science Education
Tagged Data Science Dojo
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