Announcement

Predictive Analytics World, March 16-21, 2014 in San Francisco is the business event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners, covering today's commercial deployment of predictive analytics, across industries and across software vendors. The conference delivers case studies, expertise and resources. Register with discount code DSCPAW15 to save $150 off 2 day passes.

Featured Articles

• Practical illustration of Map-Reduce (Hadoop-style), on real data
• My thoughts on big data and data science: no, it's not hype
• Is 'HR Analytics' Going to be Just Another Buzzword This Year?
• Banks gain value out of big data focusing on the customer experience
• Three myths about data scientists and big data - Updated
• Big Data books - Data Science, Analytics, and Machine Learning. Oh my!
• Why Companies can't find analytic talent - by Vincent Granville
  
• Why Companies can't find analytic talent - by Ira Gershkoff
• 10 Great Attributes of Jigsaw Academy's HR Analytics Certification ...
• Replaying the NFL Championships with Twitter Language Analytics
• Should you invest in Big Data? Why that's likely the wrong question…
• Framework to build logistic regression model in a rare event popula...

Forum Questions

• Any web hosting with Hadoop pre-installed?
• When to tell a client he needs big data?
• IPython, RMagic, and Plotly: Graph and Analyze Titanic Passengers
• How to get started with Hadoop? - New comments posted

News and Short Contributions

• Machine Learning For Forensic Accounting - DSC Webinar
• Become a certified data scientist! - New DSC certification
• NC State Statistics Department Helps Land $60 Million NSA Grant
• Pitfall of 'regression to the mean' in growth hacking
• How to collect your application’s big data fast and low-cost via S3...
• Benefits from big data at cost of privacy?
• A Date with a Data Scientist
• Choosing the appropriate Clustering Algorithm (Video)

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