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• How Zipfian Academy Graduate Alex Mentch became a Data Scientist at... *
• Prescriptive versus Predictive Analytics *
• New batch of 38 selected resources and articles *
• Qualitative Engine for Organizational Simulations *
• SMBs and the Cloud: Things to Consider Before Adopting Cloud Strate... *
• Meta-list of data set repositories for cool data science projects 
• 15 timeless data science articles 
• SOS - Stamp Out Spreadsheets 
• Quantifying the Value of a NoSQL Project 
• Make it Simple, Stupid! 
• When your metrics lie to you: how to find out, and what should you do?
• Harvesting wild data: A pickers guide 
• 50 Face Recognition APIs 
• Large Scale Data Sharing made safe and simple 
• To Infinity and Where? 
• Y Combinator companies has more funding than the sum total of all r... 
• A Comprehensive List of Big Data Statistics 
• Rise of online real money gaming 

News, Events, Books, Training, Forum Questions

• How to Handle Petabytes of Data - Upcoming DSC Webinar
• Bit.ly banned on Google *
• How should a financial report look like? *
• K Means Clustering - Effect of random seed *
• Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology - Call for Papers *
• Unified Secure On-/Off-line Analytics 
• Book: Data Science for Dummies
• Book: Predictive Modeling and Analytics 
• New Book on Time Series, by Ted Dunning & Ellen Friedman 
• Data mining - Coursera course 
• New data science program (BS/MS) at University of Massachusetts Dar... 
• New Elearning course: Credit Risk Analytics 
• Ends Today: Strata + Hadoop World in Barcelona Early Price
• Forrester Research: User-Driven Enterprise BI Strategy 
• White Paper: Retail Analytics in Finance Industry 

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Source: Ebola data set

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

• Katie Kent - VP at Zipfian Academy 
• Dominic Gadoury - Director of Product Management 
• Andrej Lapajne - Founder at Zebra BI 
• Kumaran Ponnambalam - Director, Data Engineering 
• Kyle Albert - Researcher, Writer 
• Chris Pilling - Executive, MatchDeck.com

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