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Ryan Rosario, Review of 2011 Data Scientist Summit, May 2011
Some time over the past 6 weeks I randomly saw a tweet announcing the "Data Scientist Summit" and shortly below it I saw that it would be held in Las Vegas at the Venetian. Being a Data Scientist myself is reason enough to not pass up this opportunity, but Vegas definitely sweetens the deal!
23andMe provides users with a kit containing a test tube into which the user spits. The kit is then sent back to 23AndMe labs which analyzes something like 500,000 to a million different markers (I am not a biologist) and can provide information about what markers are present such as: has the gene for diabetes or cancer etc. ...
Kaggle is a community-based platform for individuals and organizations to submit datasets and open them up to the Data Science community for analysis ... as a competition. I love the geekiness of this endeavor, and it continues where the Netflix Prize left off. Kaggle has some awesome prizes for winning the competition such as $3M for the Heritage Health Prize. There are other freebies as well, such as Revolution R Enterprise free for competitors.
The highlight of the 2nd day was a talk by Jonathan Harris titled The Art and Science of Storytelling. He introduced his project "We Feel Fine" which is a conglomeration of emotions and his project aims to capture the status of the human condition. He showed beautiful user interfaces and great examples of fluid user experience.
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Reflections on Data Science Summit 2011, by David Smith (Revolution Analytics), May 13, 2011
The Data Science Summit held in Las Vegas this week was outstanding - kudos and thanks to EMC/Greenplum for organizing the event. The energy of 150+ data scientists coupled with a well-curated agenda of talks created a real sense of being at the cusp of a real revolution in the applications of data analysis. ...
The opening keynote from cultural anthropologist and futurist Thornton May, who created a real sense of excitement around the future of Data Science as a discipline. He noted that 35% of Fortune 500 companies are reformulating their strategies on the basis of Big Data and analytics, and as a consequence he hypothesizes that the "hero of the next age" will be the Data Scientist.
The Major Mashups in Action session - Pete Skomoroch's slides include some useful pointers to data sources and tools.
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