Dear members,

I’m very pleased to announce a new addition to the DSC community – Big Data News! I’d like to personally invite you to join me on our latest Data Science Central Community Channel dedicated to all things Big Data. You can click on…

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Featured Articles

1. Top 10 Data Scientists from Gil Press A-List
2. [Book]…

Here's the current list (as of January 26), according to Gil Press, a well know data science contributor for Forbes..

The first three numbers (for each data scientist) represent reach, resonance and relevance respectively. The next three entries represent recent popular articles.…

We are looking for a consultant to (initially) fix an issue with our banner ads in our two (soon to be three) Ning networks: DataScienceCentral and AnalyticBridge. 

Our…

This is very scary: you visit a web site on an infected computer, and suddenly all the ads (e.g. about data science conferences) are replaced by irrelevant, crappy ads (e.g. about weight loss). For about 0.5 second, you can see the original ads, but they quickly get over-written by the fraudulent content. It impacts display ads, as well as contextual ads on many websites, but only on infected computers, and only…

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Our selection of top big data, data science and business articles published over the last 30 days, in the New York Times, Forbes, MIT, HBR, Information Week, DataScienceCentral, Gigaom etc.

• Interview Questions for Data…

Many great articles have been posted on DataScienceCentral.com and AnalyticBridge.com over the holidays. Most recently, I posted these two articles:…

The problem:

• The cost of healthcare in US will go up for everyone, as employers will pass the buck to employees and the uninsured will have to pay.
• Even standard procedures have high price volatility. If you ask…

Crime rates in big cities (where gasoline concentration is high) peaked about 20 years after lead was banned in gasoline, according to an econometric study by Rick Nevin. The 20 year time lag being the time elapsed between lead exposure at birth, and turning into a 20 year old criminal.

At least, that's the argument proposed…