A Taxonomy of Data Science
by Hilary Mason and Chris Wiggins Both within the academy and within tech startups, we’ve been hearing some similar questions lately: Where can I find a good data scientist? What do I need to learn to...
View ArticleOur Predictions and Hopes for Data Science in 2011
Happy New Year! 2010 was an amazing year for data science, and we believe that 2011 will truly be the year that data science grows up. We have a lot to look forward to this year, so without further...
View ArticleAnalyze data, save lives, win $3 million
Our friends at Kaggle are hosting the Heritage Health Prize. Launching April 4, the competition is seeking an algorithm that can predict patients at high risk for hospital admissions. It’s difficult to...
View ArticleSnippet: Science special collection on Dealing with Data
The February edition of Science offers a special collection of articles from scientists in a variety of fields on the challenges and opportunities of working with large amounts of data. The...
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Snippet: The Popularity of Data Analysis Software
We’re often asked what our tool stack looks like. Robert Muenchen over at r4stats has a study of the most popular data analysis software. He looks at factors as varied as traffic on the language...
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Accentuate.us: Machine Learning for Complex Language Entry
Editors note: We’d like to invite people with interesting machine learning and data analysis applications to explain the techniques that are working for them in the real world on real data....
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Snippet: Where the F**k Was I?
James Bridle had an interesting reaction to the revelation that his iPhone was tracking his location: he made a book! He describes his reaction to his phone’s data collection habits rather poetically:...
View ArticleLive stream the Strata NY Data Science Conference!
Strata New York 2011 has just begun, and you can view the livestream here:
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