Data Science Central launched this week the Data Science Research Center, a public online resource for practitioners to read, download or publish high quality papers. If your article is accepted, you are entitled to a signed, free copy of Dr Granville's book, may have your profile featured on DSC on the…

Resources

• Advanced R 
• Fast out-of-core learning system Vowpal Wabbit 
• Where are the Deep Learning Courses? 
• 11 Data Science Research Papers …

The full version is always published Monday. Starred articles are new additions, posted between Thursday and Sunday

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• Predictive Analytics World Manufacturing, June 16-19 in…

Here I am talking about small countries with 10 million or less inhabitants, with good universities and high standard of living: places such as Switzerland, Singapore, Ireland, Belgium, Greece, Netherlands etc.

For data scientists, the challenges are as follows:

• Government has rather small data to analyze, compared with big…

Specifically designed in the context of big data in our research lab, the new and simple strong correlation synthetic metric proposed in this article should be used, whenever you want to check if there is a real association between two variables, especially in large-scale automated data science or machine learning projects. Use this new metric now, to avoid being accused of reckless…

The full version is always published Monday. Starred articles are new additions, posted between Thursday and Sunday

Featured Contributions

• Tutorial: How to detect spurious correlations, and how to find the real…

I describe here the projects that I worked on, as well as career progress, starting 25 years ago as a PhD student in statistics, until today, and the transformation from statistician to data scientist that occurred slowly and started more than 20 years ago. This also illustrates many applications of data science, most are still active.

Early years

My interest…

From Slate, StatSoft, BBC, Venturebeat and niche publishers:

• The Curse of Dimensionality in classification
• Emacs and Vi have been battling for text-editor supremacy among programmers for 40 years.…

The full version is always published Monday. Starred articles are new additions, posted between Thursday and Sunday

Featured Contributions

• Journey of a data scientist *
• 20…

Fifty copies of my Wiley book are available for the first 50 bloggers posting an original, relevant, non-promotional article, in our blog section.

Your article will be featured in our weekly…

Guest blog post by Pasha Roberts, Chief Scientist, Talent Analytics @pasharoberts

Our prior article on this venue began outlining the business value for solving “the other churn” - employee attrition. We introduced…

Starred articles are new additions, posted in the last three days.

Featured Contributions

• Feature Space Compression for Unstructured Data using Locality Sensitive Hashing *
• Big Data Cloud Security Challenges, per the White…

This edition features more than 15 resources and articles from various outlets.

Resources

• MLTK: Machine Learning Toolkit in Java – free download
• Python tutorials for data scientists…

Announcement

INFORMS Continuing Education program is designed for analytics professionals who need to solve real-world issues. INFORMS courses provide real take-away value; the skills, tools and methods you can implement immediately at work. 2 courses are currently offered, with 2 more coming this fall.

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