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First, a periodic table of visualization tools

Then, a…

Originating Author: Jeff Kelly. Originally published on Wikibon.org.…

The new, completed version of this Data Science Cheat Sheet can be found here.

We are now at 20, up from 17. I hope I find the time to write a one-page survival guide for UNIX, Python and Perl.…

By Vincent Granville

Dr. Roy Marsten, author of more than 30 papers on computational optimization in academic journals, has been a professor at MIT, Northwestern, University of Arizona, and the Georgia Institute of Technology before becoming a Big Data entrepreneur, founding several companies. Today, he has taken his…

Bulk email represents one of the largest portions of legitimate email (spam is not included in this category). Sending bulk email requires a lot of bandwidth, and technical expertize to obtain high delivery rates. Newsletters that you are subscribed to, are typically sent via newsletter management companies, such as Vertical Response, MailChimp, Constant Contact or iContact. It is also expensive, with $10,000 per…

True or false? What would be your numbers, in your opinion? And how do you define data user, even data? Is most of the data dormant and getting deleted even before being processed or summarized to feed some reports, actions or decisions?

Also, not all data is equal, comparing sensor data (very big) with…

Here are a few ones:…

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Big data is not expensive. You can process 10 terabytes of data per year on collocated servers using open source tools (Python - I do it in Perl), using your own home-made Hadoop system if needed, to score 100 billion transactions, all for less than $1,000 per year. It requires a bit of…

Open ended-questions. What are your thoughts, how would you answer the following questions? Feel free to select a few of these questions (or create your own) and provide an answer in the "Comments" section. I'll add my own answers in the next few days.…

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How much money do successful data scientists or analysts make, and which tools increase their salaries most? O’Reilly Media surveyed hundreds of Strata Conferenceattendees on both coasts for its first annual …

This is potentially one of the worst nightmares for security experts. This type of fraud has been observed in the context of click fraud, but the payload potential is far bigger if it ever gets implemented to steal bank account…

If you provide online training, it's very easy to move your business out of California. None of these regulators are qualified to assess whether the training/content meet standards: they don't even know what data science means. Also, the tons of regulations that they have enacted apply to very traditional school settings. To qualify, you must send plans of the…