Most popular KDnuggets tweets
(see twitter.com/kdnuggets ) for July 2-4 were
- Data Miners Beware: when looking for stat. significance with small effects, you likely overestimate effect magnitude bit.ly/LM5uEn
- RIP Software companies; Hello Data companies. In Mass, 120 big data companies target $64B database & analytics market onforb.es/LLPORj
- Giants meet: Kasparov plays a game against Alan Turing chess program (which Turing wrote by hand, before computers) bit.ly/MpKQzQ
- Cambridge startup Quant5 wants to be the Nostradamus of 'big data' with Predictive analytics SaaS www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2012/07/quant5_angling_to_become_the_n.html
- Reflections on Kaggle - does it promote exploitation of data scientists? bit.ly/NuNiPU
- Data Scientist Profile: Claudia Perlich, Chief Scientist at media6degrees (m6d) bit.ly/LZp3PS
- MetaLayer wants to turn anyone to a Data Scientist - good slogan, bad idea. Data science also needs education, talent bit.ly/Nj7Gp9
- UCR Insect Classification Contest - classify insects by their sounds bit.ly/R5dd5b
- Ex-Facebook, Microsoft team launches MemSQL, fast SQL interface within in-memory data tier; gets $5M funding bit.ly/MEbQep
Popular retweets:
- A new journal on #DataScience: bit.ly/L0snJ3 (via @DrewConway)