Kirk Borne is Professor of Astrophysics and Computational Science in the George Mason University School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences (SPACS). Turns out he is the father of the term “unknown unknowns” – things we do not know we don’t know – popularized by former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld and later by Avinash Kaushik as “the unique space in which big data analysts should actually play.”
“I can’t express how infuriated I am that my credit history, phone activity, and online browsing habits are being systematically collected and archived without my knowledge by undisclosed organizations that aren’t trying to sell me products”–Area Man
“PRISM 1.0 was a little glitchy, and now that we’ve smoothed out the bugs, well, your privacy, especially inside your own home, will be a thing of the past. The technology is so good that it will basically be as if a member of the NSA is standing right behind you at all times”– NSA director General Keith B. Alexander announcing PRISM 2.0
“NSA email me with job offer. Offer say ‘To accept, nod once. To decline, nod twice’”–BigDataBorat
Borasky’s Law: Sturgeon and Mencken were optimists, too.
Source: What Hath Von Neumann Wrought?
Tunkelang: The O’Reilly Strata Conference brings together an incredible community of people working on big data. This year, I decided to do something different for my presentation. Rather than talk about science or technology, I addressed the practical problem of interviewing the candidates to build teams of data scientists.
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To see the other 56 questions assessing “the technical horizontal knowledge of a senior candidate at a high level” go here
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Summary of the presentation by Ben Rooney here
Update: Ben Rooney interviews DJ Patil
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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 2011)
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“With big data, you have only two concerns, but they are, naturally, big ones: where the data will come from and what your company will do with it. Solve these and you have big data licked… IT projects have to be fully buzzword-compliant or they’ll fail. For a big data project, this means Hadoop. If you don’t want to invest staff time and energy learning this technology, do what my client did: Build a virtual server, install MySQL on it, and assign the name “Hadoop” to the server. When your BDSC (big data steering committee) asks if you’ve installed Hadoop, you can answer in the affirmative with a clear conscience”—Bob Lewis Continue reading
