- Top news for Jun 23-29: Top KDnuggets tweets, Machine Learning cheat sheet - Jun 30, 2013.
Top KDnuggets tweets, Jun 19-23: Machine Learning cheat sheet; NYTimes BIG DATA 2013 special section; Datameer 3.0: first ever point-click machine learning for Hadoop;
Top jobs: SW Dev. Manager - Advertising at Amazon (Bangalore); Applied Data Scientist (Post-Doc) at Globys
- Top news for Jun 16-22: LIONBook: free online book on Machine Learning; Reaction to PRISM; Process Mining - Jun 23, 2013.
LIONBook: free online book on Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization; Reaction to NSA Prism Data Mining: Outrage and Shrug; Process Mining Movie
Top jobs: Data Scientists (all levels), Amazon; Data Analyst at AllOut
- Reaction to NSA Prism Data Mining: Outrage and Shrug - Jun 17, 2013.
The KDnuggets Poll on NSA PRISM program - collecting and data mining huge amounts of internet data - produced an intense debate and strong reaction, with 66% of European and 56% of US/Canada voters expressing outrage. The rest of the world was mostly not surprised.
- Top news for Jun 9-15: RapidMiner and R vie for first place; Simple Decision Tree Excel Add-in; Import.io for web data - Jun 16, 2013.
KDnuggets Annual Software Poll: RapidMiner and R vie for first place; Simple Decision Tree Excel Add-in; Import.io for easy visual web data download
Top jobs: PhD position on Machine Learning for Gait Analysis in Geneva; Data Scientist at Civis Analytics, Chicago
- Exclusive: Part 2 of my Interview with Dan Steinberg, President of Salford Systems, Data Mining pioneer - Jun 15, 2013.
Part 2 of my exclusive interview with Dan Steinberg, on CART, MARS, RandomForests, working with Leo Breiman, winning competitions, On Big Data, and advice to aspiring data scientists. If you missed one revolution wait a bit to catch the next one!
- Exclusive: Interview with Dan Steinberg, President of Salford Systems, Data Mining Pioneer - Jun 15, 2013.
My exclusive interview with Dan Steinberg, on CART, MARS, RandomForests, working with Leo Breiman, the origin of Salford Systems, CART vs C4.5, winning competitions, and more. If you miss one revolution you only needed to wait a bit to catch the next one!
- Import.io easy visual download and import web data - Jun 9, 2013.
Web was designed for documents, not for data, and Import.io wants to remedy this. I spoke to Import.io founder about what they do, and how Import.io lets you download the web data in an easy and visual way.
- Top news for Jun 2-8: KDnuggets Poll: RapidMiner and R vie for first place; Very Fast Sampling for Big Data - Jun 9, 2013.
KDnuggets Annual Software Poll: RapidMiner and R vie for first place; Very Fast Sampling Algorithms for Big Data; 42 Big Data Startups;
Top jobs: Credit Risk Manager at Axcess Financial; Doctoral scholarship in machine learning at TU-Darmstadt-DIPF
- New Poll: Your reaction to PRISM, NSA huge data mining of top US internet firms? - Jun 7, 2013.
New KDnuggets Poll asks: What is your reaction to PRISM, NSA huge data mining of top US internet firms? Outrage, Support, No big deal ? Please vote.
- KDnuggets Annual Software Poll: RapidMiner and R vie for first place - Jun 3, 2013.
The 2013 KDnuggets Software Poll was marked by a battle between RapidMiner and R for the first place. Surprisingly, commercial and free software maintained parity, with about 30% using each exclusively, and 40% using both. Only 10% used their own code - is analytics software maturing? Real Big Data is still done by a minority - only 1 in 7 used Hadoop or similar tools, same as last year.
- Top news for May 26 - Jun 1: New Poll: Analytics/DM Software used; 42 Big Data Startups - Jun 2, 2013.
New Poll: Predictive Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science Software Used; 42 Big Data Startups; SMA secret sauce for using Twitter Sentiment for stock trading;
Top jobs: Data Scientist, Strategic at Groupon; Engagement Manager at Latentview
- Top news, jobs in May: New Poll: Analytics/Data Mining Software; 10 Most Influential People - Jun 1, 2013.
New Poll: Predictive Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science Software Used; 10 Most Influential People in Data Analytics; Statistical Analysis and Data Mining journal Top Papers Free Access
Top jobs: Data Scientist at Amazon; Data Scientist at Apple, Cupertino
- Additions to KDnuggets Directory in May - Jun 1, 2013.
Alteryx, BigML, and Skytree Analytics/Machine Learning in the cloud, and new companies, datasets, education, meetings, software, and blogs
