[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_CYKk8q1Ao]
Summary of the presentation by Ben Rooney here
Update: Ben Rooney interviews DJ Patil
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LtzMhr0ZCM]
Past Courses in Big Data Analytics and Data Science: Content Online
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)
Social Media & Web Analytics Innovation Summit
Join me in Boston this September 13 & 14 for the exclusive Social Media & Web Analytics Innovation Summit – bringing together the industry’s most innovative leaders and professionals for two days in an open and interactive environment.
The event will combine keynote presentations from over 35 industry experts, with interactive breakout sessions and open discussion. There will also be networking opportunities and workshops to share industry insights and innovation with your peers.
Confirmed Speakers include:
– Vice President, Digital Marketing & Analytics, Discovery
– Vice President, Web Analytics, Amazon
– Head, Digital Marketing, Siemens
– Senior Vice President, Research, NBCUniversal
– Director, Product Intelligence, Salesforce
– Senior Director, Personalization & Targeting, CBS Interactive
– Director, Global Social Media, Ancestry
– Director, Business Intelligence, KPMG
– And many more…
Register online at http://analytics.theiegroup.com/social-boston/registration
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Big Data Quotes of the Week: August 10, 2012
“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
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Big Data Events
Big Data and Data Science Events
August – November 2012
Last updated August 6, 2012
Highlights: Partner Events
Big Data Innovation Summit September 13-14, Boston
Predictive Analytics World–Government September 17-18, Washington DC
To get a 15% off of the 2 Day and Combo passes, use this code: WTBDBP12
Predictive Analytics World September 30-October 4, Boston
To get a 15% off of the 2 Day and Combo passes, use this code: WTBDBP12
Text Analytics World Oct 3-4, Boston
To get a 15% off of the 2 Day and Combo passes, use this code: WTBDBP12
Predictive Analytics World November 6-7, Düsseldorf
To get a 15% off of the 2 Day and Combo passes, use this code: WTBDBP12
Predictive Analytics World November 27-28, London
To get a 15% off of the 2 Day and Combo passes, use this code: WTBDBP12
The 13th Annual International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration August 8-10, Las Vegas
The 18th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining August 12-16, Beijing, China Continue reading
Top 5 Data Science Influencers: July 22, 2012
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 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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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.
When you went to MIT, what were your future plans? Continue reading
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