WhatsTheBigData

“Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?”—Pat Gelsinger, EMC

“You have to realize something about the three of us–we’re all big gamers. And we’re analytical. And competitive. We play those really complicated strategy board games that are supposed to take an hour or two to finish. They take us four or five hours. We just can’t help thinking through every possible move, every possible outcome and side-effect of those moves, and how best to take advantage of a given situation”–Dan Kador, CTO, Keen (on raising venture capital with co-founders Kyle Wild and Ryan Spraetz)

Being a statistician means never having to say you’re sure–Mike Parker ?@Sysparatem    Continue reading →

1. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets

2.  Harish Kotadia, Infosys, @HKotadia

3. David Smith, Revolution Analytics, @revodavid

4. Gil Press, What’s the Big Data? @GilPress

5. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru

Source: Traackr

Monica Rogati in The LinkedIn Blog on Coursera, which offers free online courses: “Coursera’s approach to feedback and assessment is a very interesting application of data science. Tests are either computer-graded or peer-graded — the latter following industry tested crowdsourcing best practices (clear instructions, gold standards, training, qualification tasks assessor agreement monitoring etc.). Peer grading isn’t just treated as a means for scaling — it is part of the learning process. One of Daphne’s charts showed that students significantly improved on subsequent tests after peer- and self-grading. Interestingly, the better students learned even more from self-grading than from grading others…    Continue reading →

1.  Harish Kotadia, Infosys, @HKotadia

2. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets

3. Avkash Chauhan, Microsoft, @avkashchauhan

4. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru

5. David Smith, Revolution Analytics, @revodavid

Source: Traackr