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Announcements

• Predictive Analytics World for Business, September 27 - October 1 in Boston, provides concrete examples of deployed predictive analytics. Hear from the horse's mouth precisely how Fortune 500 analytics competitors and top practitioners deploy predictive modeling, and what kind of business impact it delivers. This conference covers hot topics such as ad & marketing analytics, clustering for marketing and beyond, credit risk analytics, debt collection optimization, personalized learning, insurance analytics, open data sources, retail advertising analytics, salesforce analytics, the big data of mobile and workforce analytics. Register by August 14 to receive BIG savings with the early bird di...

• Transform your career through the NYU Stern MS in Business Analytics program. The MS in Business Analytics is a one-year, part-time executive-friendly program divided into five on-site class sessions (modules) at NYU Stern and two rotating global locations.
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Featured

• The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Data Quality and Business Intellig...*
• The Big Data Contrarians: The Agora for Big Data dialogue on LinkedIn *
• Analytics and Big Data: The Skeptics Versus the Enthusiasts *
• What to do With Data - infographic *
• The Data Science Ecosystem in One Tidy Infographic 
• Getting a Data Science Education 
• You need an algorithm, not a Data Scientist. Um...not quite 
• Guide To Linear Regression 
• 50 Articles about Hadoop and Related Topics 
• 7 Skills/Attitudes to Become a Better Data Scientist 
• A Guide to the Internet of Things - Infographic 
• 31 external machine learning / data science resources and articles +
• A pletora of big data infographics 
• 9 Python Libraries Which Can Help You In Image Processing 
• Using Big Data to Target In-Market Consumers - Infographic 
• The Next Big Thing In Big Data: BDaaS 
• 7 Python Tools All Data Scientists Should Know How to Use 
• Big Data Analytics in a Snap 
• Average attorney rate jumps 85% after first year in practice - Visualization
• Are You Concerned Over Systems Security? Cloud Systems Can Be Vulne... 
• Tips for choosing the right cloud service provider 

News, Events, Books, Training, Forum Questions

• When is the right time for real-time analytics? * - Upcoming DSC Webinar
• Know if you’ve got data for Rob and Bob Smith, or just Rob’  - IBM Webinar
• New Data Science Jobs *
• Training: Propensity Score Analysis *
• Training: Longitudinal Data Analysis Using SEM *
• Question: how easy is it to shift domain from manufacturing to anal...*
• Bigfoot vs UFO - Analyzing and Visualizing Keywords Trends *
• Bill Vorhies promoted to Editorial Director of DSC Network 
• List of All Aster Videos on Advanced Analytics 
• Qlikview Project implementation 
• How measurement drives behavior - Tableau whitepaper
• Jumpstarting your Big Data Strategies - IEG Conference
• How Data Science-Driven Software is Eating the Connected World - Video
• Question: When is Python faster than R? 
• Question: Analytics Domain using UI-based Tools Vs. Coding 
• Visual Analytic Monitors. Deep Dive Discovers! 
• List of All Aster Videos on Advanced Analytics 
• Free donation-class based machine learning trainings in San Francisco 

Picture of the Week

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On DSC Channels

• NewSQL - RDBMS on Steroids 
• How to Avoid a Data Disaster - Infographic 
• 50 Articles about Hadoop and Related Topics 
• Machine Learning at Scale with Spark 
• Lesson 9: Making Your Selection - Final Considerations 
• Infographics: The Half Life of Data 
• So You Want to be a Data Scientist 
• Hadoop: What It Is And Why It’s Such A Big Deal 

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