Category Archives: Data Science
Vincent Granville’s 66 job interview questions for data scientists
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
Data Science at Netflix with Elastic MapReduce
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGcZ7WVx6EI]
DJ Patil at LeWeb, December 2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_CYKk8q1Ao] Summary of the presentation by Ben Rooney here Update: Ben Rooney interviews DJ Patil [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LtzMhr0ZCM]
Past Courses in Big Data Analytics and Data Science: Content Online
Past Courses in Big Data Analytics and Data Science Content Online Analyzing Big Data with Twitter (UC Berkeley, School of Information) (Fall 2012) Introduction to Data Science (Columbia University, Statistics Department) (Fall 2012 Introduction to Data Science (UC Berkeley, Computer Science) (Spring … Continue reading
Top 5 Data Science Influencers: July 22, 2012
1. Vincent Granville, AnalyticBridge,@analyticbridge 2. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru 3. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets 4. Harish Kotadia, Infosys, @HKotadia 5. David Smith, Revolution Analytics, @revodavid Source: Traackr
Top 5 Data Science Influencers: July 15, 2012
1. Vincent Granville, AnalyticBridge,@analyticbridge 2. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru 3. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets 4. Christopher Berry, The Analytics Revolution, @cjpberry 5. David Smith, Revolution Analytics, @revodavid Source: Traackr
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
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
Facebook’s IPO and the Laws of Big Data
Without using any predictive analytics tools, I confidently predict that Facebook’s IPO will give rise to more vocal demands for people to “get a cut” of its—and other social media companies’—profits. People deserve, so the argument goes, a share of … Continue reading
New Research Reports on Big Data
Two new research reports on big data flash out its early impact on enterprise IT.