A very warm welcome back to all here in Data Science Central. I decided to post today given that a friend in a common Social network shared with me one link that I thought to be in the interest of the community of good and responsible Data Scientists, as it were.

It concerns a blog post from Quantopian, which is an interesting new crowd-sourced investing platform vendor, a new…

I thought that this interview deserved a repost here at Data Science Central. It is with the man responsible for Artificial Intelligence at Facebook: the AI director Yann Lecun; and might be of interested and appeal to the knowlegeable of AI here. 

I post an excerpt and the link below for the full interview:

IEEE Spectrum: We read about Deep Learning in the news a lot these days. What’s your…

As Hadoop and the surrounding projects & vendors mature, their impact on the data management sector is growing. Amr will talk about his views on how that impact will change over the next five years. How central will Hadoop be to the data center of 2020? What industries will benefit most? Which technologies are at risk of displacement or encroachment? 

View video: Hadoop's…