Category Archives: Data Science
Big Data Panels at the 2013 MIT CIO Symposium (Video)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWLydZFnFE&w=560&h=315] Moderator: Tom Davenport, Babson College Annabelle Bexiga, TIAA-CREF; Frank Diana, TCS; Jack Norris, MapR; Keith Collins, SAS Institute; Michael Chui, McKinsey Global Institute Davenport: “I’m going to trademark ‘Humongous Data’” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRAI2FBtkn0&w=560&h=315] Moderator: Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Center for Digital Business Prof. Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan … Continue reading
The OED, Big Data, and Crowdsourcing
The term “big data” was included in the most recent quarterly online update of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). So now we have a most authoritative definition of what recently became big news: “data of a very large size, typically to the extent that its … Continue reading
Leon Wieseltier and Steven Pinker Debate the Quantified Society
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GevfKLmmMr0&w=560&h=315] “We are becoming a massified, datafied, quantified society, which looks for wisdom in numbers and thinks that numbers can provide certainty… owing to the explosion of so-called big data there has developed excessive confidence in the ability of the … Continue reading
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What Data Quality Problem? (Video)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0dIu4dCnJE&w=560&h=315] HT: Big Data Republic
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Big Data Observations: The Science of Asking Questions
“I am a firm believer that without speculation there is no good and original observation”—Charles Darwin “It is the theory that determines what we can observe”—Albert Einstein “I suspect, however, like as it is happening in many academic fields, the … Continue reading
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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
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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Visualising the Road to Becoming a Data Scientist
Source: Swami Chandrasekaran
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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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
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