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Let's Get MAD! (and share your analytic genius)

Posted on April 9, 2012 at 9:27am 0 Comments 1 Like

There is a great blog post at Sigmod by Joe Hellerstein about MADlib:

MADlib is an open-source library of scalable in-database algorithms for machine learning, statistics and other analytic tasks. MADlib is supported with people-power from Greenplum; researchers at Berkeley, Florida and Wisconsin are also contributing. The project recently released a …

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Question: Where is the happiest place in New York City?

Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:33pm 0 Comments 1 Like

Where is the happiest place in New York City? A mathematics and statistics team from the University of Vermont, with a little help from Twitter data, seems to know! (hint: UWS!)

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Twitter Data Scientist Takes on McDonald's Entire Menu, Survives

Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:42pm 1 Comment 0 Likes

From MIT's Technology Review -

"Data science is so new that there are no textbooks on the subject, and no university curricula designed to turn out data scientists. Yet it's integral to everything from quantitative trading on Wall Street to ad targeting on the web and the optimization of real-world supply chains."