This could be a good project in connection with our data science apprenticeship. Two websites, GreatSchools.org and Zillow.com provide two great indicators: school scores for more than 100,000 schools…

Note: The domain RonCloud.com seems dead now. Read the comment section below for alternatives.

You have to see it to believe it. Go to roncloud.com and you can enter R commands in the browser-embedded console. Wondering how easy it would be…

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Or something else. I could not resist to post this chart:

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How can organizations use data visualization, visual analytics, and visual data discovery to improve decision-making, collaboration, and operational execution? We present three key insights from the latest TDWI research.

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Interesting topic posted by InfiniteLoop on PerlMonks, back in 2008!

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There's a lot of talk these days about how governments use all the data they can put their hands on, to monitor every individual in the world. Capabilities offered by big data storage and analytic processing are immense, when in the hands of professional, capable data scientists.  Last week the National Security Agency was under the spotlight, a month ago it was the IRS (Income Revenue Service) for a biased auditing …

Nowadays we hear a lot about big data, cloud, or the big data analytics on cloud. One of the underlying needs here is the data storage. It is stored as 0’s and 1’s in some datacenters. It isn’t cheap to maintain all of this data. Looking at the heat generated by these datacenters, it isn’t even environment friendly.

Can this data be really in the clouds? (The real clouds formed in the sky) :)

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Your data is like Gruyere. It has holes. Big holes, sometimes the empty space occupies a bigger volume than the data itself - just like dark matter is more abundant than visible matter in the universe. This article is not about shallow or sparse data, but instead about data that you do not see, that you do not know even exist, and yet, data that contains better actionable nuggets than anything in your…

Indirectly of course. There are other factors too, such as regulations which make it illegal to sell un-pasteurized milk, horse meat, foie gras, etc., but the biggest factor influencing what the average American eats is the margin the grocery store makes on the products it sells. This explains why you can't get redcurrants or passion fruits anymore, but you'll find plenty of high energy drinks and food rich in sugar…

I looked at the job titles of my 7,500 LinkedIn connections, and found about 4,900 unique job titles. The vast majority of my connections work in data science or some analytic field. Some very popular job titles do not contain an analytic keyword: for instance CEO, Consultant, Founder. My own job titles - Co-Founder, Managing Partner - fall in this category despite the fact that among other things and foremost, I am…