Starred articles are new additions or updated content, posted between Thursday and Sunday. The weekly digest has 6 sections: (1) Featured Articles and Case Studies, (2) Featured Resources and Technical Contributions, (3) From our Sponsors, (4) News, Events, Books, Training, Forum Questions, (5) Picture of the Week, and (6) Syndicated Content.

The full version is always published Monday. The picture of the week is from the contribution marked with a +, where you will find the details. 

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Featured Articles

• MUMPS – The Most Important Database You (Probably) Never Heard Of *
• Prediction – the other dismal science? *
• How a Digital Transformation Can Improve Customer Experience with B...*
• 3 Ways Big Data and IoT Can Improve Our Health in 2016 *
• How Severe is the Impact of Global Warming and Global Climate Change? *
• Unlocking personal data *
• Big Data, Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning - Random Insights 
• Spurious correlations: 15 examples 
• The Case Against a Quick Win Approach to Predictive Analytics Projects 
• Big Data Realization: We are in transition phase 
• At CES 2016 no Clear Path to Unified Automated Home Future 
• The misanthrope’s vain struggle with big data 
• Three Big Data Trends for 2016 
• The art and (data) science of leveraging economic bubbles +
• Do You Really Need a Big Data Strategy? 
• What is Predictive Analytics? 
• Early Prediction of Popular Hashtag Compounds 

Featured Resources and Technical Contributions

• How to check hypotheses with bootstrap and Apache Spark? *
• Gapminder Data Visualization using GoogleVis and R *
• Top Resources if you want to work as a Data Scientist for the CIA 
• Java versus Python 
• Hitch Hikers Guide to Data Transformation on Census Data, Using R 
• Step-by-step video courses for Deep Learning and Machine Learning 
• 5 Excel Add Ins Every Data Scientist Should Install 
• Julia Programming Language Tutorials 
• 10 Famous Machine Learning Experts 
• 8 Types of Data 
• How and why to "Talk" to Google's Attribution Algorithm 
• Top Politics-Focused Data Science & Analytics Organizations

From our Sponsors

• How to Manage Successful Big Data Projects *
• New Data Quality Report from Major Analyst Firm *
• Kickstart Your Data & Analytics Initiatives 
• Join Us At The Big Data & Analytics Festival 
• Transforming Business Results with Big Data and Analytics - White P... 
• Embrace Self-Service Analytics with the Latest Gartner Research 

News, Events, Books, Training, Forum Questions

• Teradata Aster Machine Learning *
• Sensors Stress Me Out *
• Internet without conventional networks: Device to device peer-to-pe...*
• Deloitte Report: One Million Data Scientist Shortfall Expected by 2...*
• Versium Launches Automated Predictive Lead Score Service with 1 Tri...*
• The Role of Big Data In Medicine *
• Pedro Domingos: The Master Algorithm - Talks at Google
• Drill & Zeppelin Two promising tools - Video
• What Does Your Smart Device Know About You? - Video
• Causal Inference with Directed Graphs - Workshop
• Multilevel Modeling: A Second Course - Workshop
• IoT Tech Expo Europe 2016 
• Applying Graphic Design Principles to Create Killer Dashboards - Video
• Countries get serious about raising techies 
• Big Data Helps Businesses Identify Prospective Customers and Increa...- Infographics
• Business Analytics in Supply Chain 

Picture of the Week

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Syndicated Content

• IoT and M2M Communication Market Fact Sheet 
• Data Integrity: The Rest of the Story Part II 
• How to make any plot with ggplot2? 
• What Silicon Valley is Doing to Make Big Data More Secure in 2016 
• Self-Learn Yourself Apache Spark in 21 Blogs – #2 
• Exploring the VW scandal with graph analysis 
• Importance of BIg Terminologies in Business World 
• Little Debate: Data Priorities for all Industries 

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