Category Archives: Data Science

Big Data Commentary Roundup

Posted on March 6, 2013 by GilPress

Katie Baker in Grantland: “After spending two days and nights [at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference] talking and thinking and hearing about data visualization and correlation coefficients and Big Data… and things like ‘Dequantizing the Player Draft Using Extreme … Continue reading →

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Bayesian Evolution

Posted on March 3, 2013 by GilPress

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Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro on Big Data and Analytics (Slides)

Posted on March 3, 2013 by GilPress

An overview of analytics, data mining, and data science education in the era of Big Data: Analytics, data mining, data science – What do we call it? Big data trends Jobs and skills Analytics education overview [slideshare id=16622437&w=427&h=356&sc=no] Source: KDnuggets

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Vincent Granville’s 66 job interview questions for data scientists

Posted on February 15, 2013 by GilPress

What is the biggest data set that you processed, and how did you process it, what were the results? Tell me two success stories about your analytic or computer science projects? How was lift (or success) measured? What is: … Continue reading →

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Cupid’s Data: The Case For and Against Finding Love Online

Posted on February 15, 2013 by GilPress

From the New America Foundation In the Tank blog: Data, like diamonds, can be mined. But is data forever? Or, in other words, can you find love by creating a data-based algorithm for online dating sites like match.com? That’s how … Continue reading →

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The First Data Scientist on the Evolution of Data Science and the Ever-Changing American Voter

Posted on February 8, 2013 by GilPress

Norman Nie was not surprised by the accurate predictions of the presidential elections’ results from Nate Silver and others. “A lot of it,” he told me recently, “is good statistics and good science and good statistical programming packages.” The increasing … Continue reading →

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Mok Oh’s New Big Data Venture

Posted on January 26, 2013 by GilPress

Where’s the value in big data? Marcel Proust believed he could regain time lost through his writing, using art to overcome the corroding power of time. Mok Oh believes he can find the ultimate value of big data by preserving our memories … Continue reading →

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Data Visualization by Nathan Yau

Posted on January 10, 2013 by GilPress

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How the Obama Campaign Learned from Republicans How to Learn Our Secrets

Posted on January 9, 2013 by GilPress

Last February, Forbes’ Kashmir Hill got our attention (over 1.9 million views by now) by pulling a golden big data nugget—“How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did”—from a long New York Times article by … Continue reading →