Category Archives: Data Science
Mingsheng Hong: The Data Scientist is the New Product Manager
Boston’s new data science-related meetup, The Data Scientist, got off to a great start yesterday with a presentation titled “The Scientist, The Team and The Purpose,” entertainingly delivered by Mingsheng Hong, Chief Data Scientist at Hadapt.
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The Data Science Interview: Edwin Chen, Twitter
I don’t do pure research—my analysis enables real-world functionality Currently mining terabytes of tweets as a data scientist with Twitter, Edwin Chen studied math and linguistics at MIT and then crunched numbers at Peter Thiel’s hedge fund, Clarium Capital Management. … Continue reading
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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
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The Data Science Interview: Yun Xiong, Fudan University
The Goal of Data Science is to Study the Phenomena and Laws of Datanature Yun Xiong is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and the Associate Director of the Center for Data Science and Dataology at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. … Continue reading
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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
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The Data Science Interview: Mok Oh, PayPal
To Do Data Science, You Need a Team of Specialists Currently the Chief Scientist at PayPal, Mok Oh came on board when eBay acquired WHERE, where he was Chief Innovation Officer. Prior to WHERE, Mok founded EveryScape, a data visualization … Continue reading
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Imagination and Data Science
Today in 1833, Ada Byron (later Countess Lovelace) met Charles Babbage when visiting his house to see a portion the Difference Engine, or what her mother, Lady Byron, called his “thinking machine.” James Gleick writes in The Information: “Babbage saw a sparkling, self-possessed young woman … Continue reading
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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
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Big Data Will Make IT the New Intel Inside
Tim O’Reilly famously declared in 2005: “Data is the next Intel Inside.” It well may be that big data—the organizational skill of using data as the key driver of performance—will make the IT function the new Intel Inside, the most … Continue reading
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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
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