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Featured

• The Case for Big Data Adoption *
• 38 Seminal Articles Every Data Scientist Should Read *
• Nice comic strips *
• Comparison of statistical software *
• Wizard of Oz and the new Analytics Fairytale *
• Types and Uses of Predictive Analytics, What they are and Where You...
• Leveraging Predictive Analytics to Avoid a Major Point of Hiring Fa...
• When the data get Big?
• New Selection of Articles and Resources from Niche Bloggers
• Selection of best articles from our past weekly digests - Updated
• Comprehensive list of data science resources - Updated
• Black-box Data Science: Illustration with Confidence Intervals - Updated, many great comments
• Is Python or Perl faster than R?  - Many new comments
• Data Science: Fixing the Talent Shortage  - Very popular

News, Events, Books, Training, Forum Questions

• Book: Big Data - The Future of Education *
• Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) Market Forecasts
• Event: Data Science at the Command Line
• Hadoop Deployment Best Practices: Scalability, Robustness, Flexibility
• 10 simple techniques to make data useful and beautiful
• Introduction to Connection Analytics: OVUM White Paper
• Analyzing the Analyzers: What kind of a data scientist are you?
• Visualization for Data Management - Upcoming DSC Webinar
• Least popular jobs for big data practitioners - jobs you want to avoid
• Conference: Big Data - The Revolution
• Certificate Program and on-line courses in Data Science
• Data Science - Where is it headed?
• Video: The Difference Between Analytics and Big Data
• Forum question: Am I marketable?
• Interesting industries to work in using data analysis/science?
• Data Visualization for Data Management - Upcoming DSC Webinar
• Hadoop Deployment Best Practices: Scalability, Robustness, Flexibility
• Webinar: AIG and Walgreens on agile data strategy and lean execution

Picture of te Week

Source: A network framework of cultural history

Members of the Week *

These profiles are randomly selected among our active and new members. To be selected, you need to have a profile with short bio. It helps to post a blog, or share / comment contributions from other members.

• Debleena Roy - Executive Management 
• Rich Murnane - Director of Enterprise Data Operations, Data Architect
• Alessandro Gagliardi - Analytics Engineer at Path
• Dr Michael Kollo - Quant
• Peter Wang - President and co-founder of Continuum Analytics
• James Bland - Consultant at Amgen
• Mike Rowe - Professor Emeritus of Software Engineering
• Louis Giokas - Technology Consultant

Resources

• Data science webinars
• Data science research center
• Machine learning tutorials, data sets, R
• Data Science and Analytics Jobs

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