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Make Yourself a Data Scientist

Troy Sadkowsky runs through some common challenges in becoming a data scientist, how to overcome them, and his own professional story:

0 replies - 3194 views - 04/25/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Being a Data Scientist at Tumblr and Kickstarter

Data scientists from Tumblr, Kickstarter, and other sites discuss leveraging big data in a startup situation, in this panel from DataGotham 2012:

0 replies - 1455 views - 04/24/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

What is Data Science?

The term “data science” started to appear a few years ago and has continually gained traction. So what is it?First of all, there is no such thing as...

0 replies - 2992 views - 01/03/13 by Mikio Braun in Articles

What I Learned About Data Visualization from Hilary Mason of Bit.ly

I was fortunate enough to be able to attend this year's Strangeloop conference (http://thestrangeloop.com/). Hilary Mason, data scientist extraordinaire,...

0 replies - 2431 views - 10/14/12 by Justin Bozonier in Articles

Thoughts on the Investigation Stage of the Nygard Big Data Model

Earlier this year Michael Nygard wrote an extremely detailed post about his experiences in the world of big data projects and included in the post was the...

0 replies - 2182 views - 10/11/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Data Science: Making Sense of the Data

Over the past month or so, Ashok and I have been helping one of our clients explore and visualise some of their data. One of the first things we needed...

0 replies - 2538 views - 10/04/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Data/Science Links of the Week (including "Big Data Blasphemy -- Why Sample?")

The most interesting post I found in the past few days was probably: "Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say...

0 replies - 2687 views - 10/02/12 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Data Structures, Wikileaks, and What Comes Next

Back in late November of 2010, fresh off a series of high-profile leaks, Julian Assange teased another bombshell from Wikileaks, a massive data dump that could...

0 replies - 8817 views - 10/01/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Hubris and the Data Scientist

Joe Brockmeier captures a recurring issue from the recent O’Reilly Strata conference, asking “Can Big Data replace domain expertise?” According to...

0 replies - 2096 views - 09/16/12 by Paul Miller in Articles

Pseudo-Science: The Dark Side of Big Data

Over the last couple of months I have read up on volumes of Technical Analysis (“TA”) information, I have back tested probably hundreds of automated...

0 replies - 3810 views - 08/04/12 by Wille Faler in Articles