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Enjoy the reading! Articles from WSJ, Forbes, HBR, The Economist, NYT, MIT and many smaller, relevant media. In random order, though more recent ones are usually higher in the list.…

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Interesting PowerPoint presentation by Carlos Somohano. Here's my favorite slide (a slightly modified version):

Brief History of Data Science

1. 1974 – Peter Naur @UoC Datalogy & Data Science…

Today Lavastorm Analytics published “Analytics 2013 – A Survey on Analytic Usage, Trends, and Future Initiatives”. This is a very interesting research project because it includes opinions from such a wide audience from the analytics community – 600…

Former VMware CEO and current Pivotal Initiative leader Paul Maritz shares his thoughts on how the future of enterprise IT must mirror the practices of consumer web companies.

In the last three decades, we’ve seen a shift in enterprise information technology, from mainframes that automated our financial information,…

Everybody talks about beautiful charts and graphs, usually produced by Tableau or R, see links below. They are definitely great and I guess publishers (including us!) love to regularly show such graphs to our readers because it generates a lot of reactions. 

But what about graphic diagrams (see examples below)…

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There are two types of data scientists:

• Vertical data scientists have very deep knowledge in some narrow field. They might be computer scientists very familiar with computational complexity of all sorting algorithms. Or a statistician who knows everything about eigenvalues, singular value decomposition…

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The stock market has soared despite no news to support the new highs. Is it time to sell or to short? Or to buy?

Here's my advice, both as a data scientist, and as a former day trader who survived 15 years of stock market volatility  (and increased model-resistant price oscillations), mostly by not trading anymore since 2000,…

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1. The Upbeat Stats on Statistics | WSJ…

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This year, Predictive Analytics World San Francisco (April 14-19) features an incredible agenda filled with awesome keynotes and 35 keynotes from leading organizations..

Check out some of the headliners at PAW SF this year:…