This newsletter contains three sections: announcements from sponsors (at the top), featured contributions from the Data Science Central community, and valuable resources for big data, data science and analytic practitioners (at the bottom).

Sponsored Listings

• Do You Really Need a Data Scientist?
• Unstructured content processing with MarkLogic and Tableau
• Develop analytical skills to unleash the power of Big Data
• Real-time Analytics for Small Data, Big Data, and Huge Data
• Open source data mining from Rapid Miner
• Data Mining Courses from The Modeling Agency
• Predictive Analytics Webinar from The Modeling Agency

Featured Discussions

• Data scientists making $300,000 a year | Wall Street Journal.
• The World's 7 Most Powerful Data Scientists
• Data Science Tools
• 8 Steps to Get Started with (Big) Data
• Webinar: Advances in Gradient Boosting: the Power of Post-Processing
• Data Veracity
• International Year of Statistics: 2013
• An Open Letter to CEOs of US Software Companies
• Is the Internet shrinking?
• NodeXL Graphs
• Made-in-China IT Products Emerge with Outstanding Capability
• Big data Analytics – A disruptive technology
• Vector Computing - The most attractive feature of R project or esProc
• Business Intelligence Suppliers: Are You Ready for 2013?
• Data Science Dictionary

Previous Weekly Digests

• Weekly Digest - November 18
• Top 21 articles for week ending November 2
• Top 16 articles for week ending October 24
• Top 27 articles for week ending October 18

Additional Resources

• New Job Ads on AnalyticTalent.com
• Our Data Science e-Book
• To become a Certified Data Scientist, join our Certified Analytics LinkedIn group. Applications are reviewed within 2-3 days, approvals are based on your bio, and there is no cost, no exam.
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