“Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated”

Yvonne Buysman, Sports & Fitness Fellow for The (ART+DATA) Institute helps us understand how the data helps design a better round of golf. Her writing reveals the effect of an instant feedback loop in golf .…

As data science evolves into a separate and distinct scientific and business discipline, there is talk about the death of traditional statistics. It is true that today's large data sets are unlike the ones we analyzed in…

Below is information found today on Kaggle. This flat rate applies regardless of the consultant's age - but only the "best" data scientists are allowed to work on business projects posted by campanies like us (we are going to submit a very interesting project next week). Yet, not sure how much the data scientists are…

By Bob Muenchen.

Here's the two main charts.…

Source: www.statslice.com/university-report. They will add updates to the report as they get additional feedback.

Please email them at [email protected] to provide updates or additions.…

During analysis of movements of individuals in public places, there are only two dimensions that can represent movement of an individual, shown via data saved between starting and end point, even incorporating elevators and stairs to different (shop) levels). That is a multi-linear way of looking at movements of individuals in crowds in a specific environment. Most big shopping corporates use these kinds of analysis methods.

But what if (like in 3D environments) movement can be up and…

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The graphs below show demographics for two popular but totally unrelated analytic websites. The demographics are strikingly similar.

USA is still the #1 country by far. Visitors from India spend more time on the site. Although you can't tell from these charts, US visitors tend to have more senior / manager roles, while in India…

This 2nd edition has more than 200 pages of pure data science, far more than the first edition. This new version of our very popular book will soon be available for download: we will make an announcement when it is officially published.

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Monthly selection of 50 big data, analytics, data science, visualization, data integration articles from various respected news outlets. Covering education, training, salaries, business applications, major press releases, success stories etc.

At the bottom of this article, you will find links to our previous news selections,…

Interview with Justin Langseth, CEO and co-founder of data visualization startup, Zoomdata.…

Big Data – The Big Picture

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." - Albert Einstein

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Data Science is in the…

Full Tilt Poker is the second largest online poker room; it belongs to Rational FT which is a computer services company that develops software, business computer maintenance and performs operations based digital marketing. http://www.rfts.com/  

Two fundamental points of running a poker room online are the integrity of the site and the trust of customers. Players must be completely sure that they are protected against fraud. Negative publicity…

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Here are some highlights from a few thought leaders and practitioners in the big data space that I found valuable enough to share – to me, they're hitting on similar themes so worth summarizing.