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Growth Hacking is turning out to be one of the hottest growing fields for data analysts & scientists. Although, there is controversy about the term & the specific meaning, the general connotation implies a function, activity or person which is primarily focused on growing a set of metrics such as users, revenue, visits &…

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 2015 will be the year of the Big Data revolution, when it crosses over from being the preserve of the experts to a mainstream issue for every business. It’s the subject being discussed in every boardroom and written about in every business journal.

It’s a game-changer for companies, such as Amazon, with access to unimaginable amounts of data – they will soon…

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I published two such Tables of Elements about a year ago, click here to check them out. This one is a new one, focusing on machine learning libraries (R and Julia). And it is interactive, with access to the various libraries listed in the table, when clicking on an element (only on the original…

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In continuation of our series exploring the data science community, we are now exploring salary patterns of data scientists. The below chart shows data from Indeed.com & the top 10 locations with the highest concentration of data scientists.

The median of these top 10 cities is between $142,000 to…

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Guest blog post by Tom Fawcett. Originally posted on SVDS.

Tom Fawcett is Principal Data Scientist at Silicon Valley Data Science. Co-author of the popular book Data Science for Business, Tom has over 20 years of experience applying machine learning and data mining in practical applications. He is a veteran of companies such as Verizon and…

The comparison is performed on a data set where linear regression works well: salary offered to a candidate, based on programming language requirements in the job ad: Python, R or SQL. This is a follow-up to the article highest paying programming skills. The increased accuracy of linear regression estimates is negligible, and well below the noise level…