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Over 5,000,000 financial, economic and social datasets
Started this discussion. Last reply by Vincent Granville Apr 29. 1 Reply 1 Like
Has anyone tried the Quandl search engine data set? Did you find any interesting data set?Other interesting data sets found in the following…Continue
Load balancing for Map Reduce
Started this discussion. Last reply by william e winkler Mar 13. 1 Reply 1 Like
Are there any implementations of Map Reduce that automatically and transparently take care of load balancing? By load balancing, I mean distributing the sub-processes of a big task evenly across…Continue
Why is election betting illegal?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Gregory Piatetsky Nov 9, 2012. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Bets are now based on advanced data science techniques including analyzing millions of tweets and other social network activity. In short, it's not gambling anymore, it is a real science.…Continue
Who are the wealthiest data scientists?
Started this discussion. Last reply by James Harbour Dec 6, 2012. 6 Replies 1 Like
How much wealthy are the founders of MapReduce? Who truly hit pay dirt thanks to their data science craftmanship?Names that come to my mind are the founders of Google (Larry Page, Sergey Brin) and…Continue
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Extreme Data Science
Posted on May 16, 2013 at 7:00pm 1 Comment 1 Like
Extreme data science is a way of doing data science to deliver high value very fast. It can best be compared to extreme rock climbing, where individuals managed to climb challenging peaks in uncharted territory, in minimum amount of time with a small team and small budget, sometimes successfully using controversial climbing routes or techniques. For instance, Reinhold Messner climbing the Everest in winter, alone in…
Continue How do I become a data scientist?
Posted on May 5, 2013 at 7:30am 6 Comments 7 Likes
Interesting question posted on Quora (a network for geeks) a while back. Here's a summary of the very long and detailed top answer:
- Learn about matrix factorizations…
Statistical software for beginners (student, trial editions)
Posted on April 14, 2013 at 2:19pm 0 Comments 3 Likes
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Continue Top LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science
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