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
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Top 5 Data Science Influencers: July 22, 2012
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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
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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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Top 5 Data Science Influencers: July 8, 2012
1. Vincent Granville, AnalyticBridge,@analyticbridge
2. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets
3. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru
4. Harish Kotadia, Infosys, @HKotadia
5. David Smith, Revolution Analytics, @revodavid
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Data Scientists and Big Data Executives to Convene in Boston, September 13-14
A great program is in store for attendees of The Big Data Innovation Summit, September 13-14 in Boston, an event for which this blog is a media sponsor. The summit will bring together senior data scientists and business executives to discuss the latest Big Data developments, real-world successes, and best-in-class practices.
Confirmed speakers include data scientists and business executives from Walt Disney, Nokia, Groupon, American Express, TripAdvisor, Allstate, GE, Zynga, NASA and AddThis. Additional workshops and deep-dive discussions promise opportunities to improve business performance and hear new best-practices.
Click here to register http://analytics.theiegroup.com/bigdata-boston/registration
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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. He blogs on topics of interest to data scientists such as crowdsourcing text analysis with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk or ggplot2, a data visualization tool. The following is an edited transcript of our recent phone conversation.
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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
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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. She received her Ph.D. in Computer and Software Theory from Fudan University in 2008. Her research interests include dataology and data science, data mining, big data analysis, developing effective and efficient data analysis techniques for various applications including finance, economics, insurance, bioinformatics, and sociology. The following is an edited version of our recent email exchange.
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Big Data Quotes of the Week
“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)
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Top 5 Data Science Influencers: June 24, 2012
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
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