Cloudera's Josh Wills discusses the life of a data scientist:
Data scientists-- the people who straddle the line between statistician and software...
0 replies - 1955 views - 02/04/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
I recently ran across a tip from Mark Hepburn that caught my eye. The content of the tip isn’t important here but rather his justification of the...
0 replies - 1992 views - 02/03/13 by John Cook in Articles
From Airbnb Tech Talks 2012, a guide to big mistakes and how to make them from former Facebook infrastructure engineer Aaron Priestley:
A practical...
0 replies - 4422 views - 02/03/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
The excellent “Artificial Intelligence for Robotics” class on Udacity starts with a Python example on teaching a robot to determine where it is, given...
0 replies - 2505 views - 02/02/13 by Gary Sieling in Articles
Last week I gave a talk at the SFRails meetup.
It was by far the largest group I've spoken to and a truly enjoyable
experience. I titled the talk...
0 replies - 2552 views - 02/02/13 by Jeff Dickey in Articles
Yesterday I found an incredible post on creating a one line browser notepad by Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga. The idea is using your browser as a minimal,...
7 replies - 3177 views - 02/01/13 by Vladimir Carrer in Articles
This morning, Stéphane asked me tricky question about extracting coefficients from a regression with categorical explanatory variates. More precisely, he...
0 replies - 1404 views - 02/01/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
…is that most of what people share is terrible. That picture of Fluffy might be meaningful to my random college friend Jim, but it’s boring to me. I...
0 replies - 1625 views - 02/01/13 by George London in Articles
Last couple of days, I found some time to work on my individual research project for the degree course. The topic area I selected for my project was on...
0 replies - 1052 views - 02/01/13 by Lakshan Perera in Articles
Just yesterday, Tuesday, our team was stuck on the wrong side of a very tight deadline. We needed to reach a significant milestone by the end of the day...
0 replies - 1380 views - 02/01/13 by Peter Schuh in Articles
This morning Dave Richeson posted a humorous fake proof that depends on the famous approximation 22/7 for pi. It occurred to me that nearly everyone knows a...
1 replies - 1516 views - 01/31/13 by John Cook in Articles
Technical debt is a fact of life for anyone working in software development: work that needs to be done to make the system cleaner and simpler and cheaper...
0 replies - 1925 views - 01/31/13 by Jim Bird in Articles
I think it's a safe bet to say that if you're reading this blog then there is a good chance that you're at least interested in Scrum. The problem is that for...
2 replies - 5992 views - 01/31/13 by Sean Mchugh in Articles
Like the Single Responsibility Principle, the Open/Closed Principle is pretty easy to apply to object-relational design in PostgreSQL, very much unlike the...
0 replies - 1387 views - 01/31/13 by Chris Travers in Articles
Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and...
0 replies - 1658 views - 01/31/13 by Martin Fowler in Articles
