Category Archives: Data Science Education
Cool Data Scientists on Campus
Hal Varian: “Data availability is going to continue to grow. To make that data useful is a challenge. It’s generally going to require human beings to do it.” Source: Carl Bialik, “Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus,” The Wall … Continue reading
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
Leave a comment
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
Leave a comment
Data Science Skills: Domain Expertise, Programming, Statistics
Source: Business Over Broadway Based on a study of 620+ data professionals, we found that data science skills fall into three broad areas: domain expertise (in our case, business), technology/programming and math/statistics.
Posted in Data Science, Data Science Careers, Data Science Education, Misc
Tagged BOB
Leave a comment
Democratizing Data Science Education (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkHrledcVw?rel=0] Personalized, open data science courses at scale Source: Jonathan Cornelissen @DataCamp.com
Big Data Analytics 2014 Predictions from IIA
Listen to the recorded webcast here. From Sarah Gates’ post: “At the end of the webcast, our listeners voted on which predictions they thought would come true. The results of the voting are shown below. If they are right, we … Continue reading
Competitive Data Science with R and Python (Video)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C6tHO-o-yo&w=560&h=315] Corey Chivers presents “From Dark Matter to Whale Calls: Competitive data-mining with R and Python” at Montreal Python; quotes John Tukey “The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone’s backyard” and updates … Continue reading
Visualising the Road to Becoming a Data Scientist
Source: Swami Chandrasekaran
Rachel Schutt on Educating Data Scientists (Video)
Rachel Schutt, Senior Research Scientist, Johnson Research Labs, describes in this DataEDGE 2013 presentation how she developed the “Introduction to Data Science” course at Columbia (Fall 2012) based on her experience as a statistician at Google and a series of informal … Continue reading
Posted in Data Science, Data Science Education, Statistics
Leave a comment