Is Data Scientist the right career path for you? Candid advice
Candid advice from an industry veteran reveals the true picture behind the much-talked-about Data Scientist "glamour" and helps people have the right expectations for a Data Science career.
on Mar 28, 2014 in Advice, Career, Data Science, Data Scientist, Hadoop, Paco Nathan, Recommendation, Visualization
Fractal Analytics Interview Highlights
Fractal Analytics CEO on starting the company, competing with the best, managing attrition, attributes he looks for when hiring, 4 different analytics career tracks, strategic bets, and advice for starting data scientists.
on Mar 27, 2014 in Advice, Career, Fractal Analytics, Hiring, Interview
Gartner 2014 Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms – view report
Pioneering predictive analytics vendor RapidMiner was positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the first "Gartner Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms" - view the full report.
on Mar 25, 2014 in Advanced Analytics, Gartner, Magic Quadrant, RapidMiner
Data Scientists Salary Survey: US, Canada, Australia lead
Data Scientists Salary Survey shows that industry data scientists are in a sweet spot, especially in US, Canada, and Australia, with average salary $135K. European and Asian data scientists salaries are significantly lower.
on Mar 21, 2014 in Asia, Australia, Canada, Data Scientist, Europe, Industry, Poll, Salary, USA
Machine Learning in 7 Pictures
Basic machine learning concepts of Bias vs Variance Tradeoff, Avoiding overfitting, Bayesian inference and Occam razor, Feature combination, Non-linear basis functions, and more - explained via pictures.
on Mar 18, 2014 in Basis functions, Bayesian, Concepts, Machine Learning, Pictures, Variance
Evolution of Fraud Analytics – An Inside Story
The amazing analytic innovations in payment fraud prevention can be grouped into three major categories: large data-set modeling, sparse data-set modeling, and false-positive reductions - a view from the inside.
on Mar 14, 2014 in False positive, FICO, Fraud analytics, Fraud Prevention, Neural Networks, Sparse data
How Many Data Scientists are out there?
We examine indeed, LinkedIn, Kaggle, and other sources to investigate how many data scientists - in name and in function - are out there, and how strong is the demand.
on Mar 13, 2014 in Data Scientist, indeed, Kaggle, LinkedIn, McKinsey
Introduction to Random Forests® for Beginners – free ebook
Random Forests is of the most powerful and successful machine learning techniques. This free ebook will help beginners to leverage the power of Random Forests.
on Mar 6, 2014 in Beginners, Decision Trees, ebook, Free, Kaggle, random forests algorithm, Salford Systems
The Do’s and Don’ts of Data Mining
Leading data mining and analytics experts give their favorite do's and don'ts, from "Do plan for data to be messy" to "Do not underestimate the power of a simpler-to-understand solution".
on Mar 1, 2014 in
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