KDnuggets™ News 14:n21, Aug 13

Features

• Certificates in Analytics, Data Mining, and Data Science - Aug 8, 2014.
  Forty six options for Certificates and Certifications in Analytics, Business Analytics, Data Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science, SAS, and R - available online, on-campus and in a blended format.
• Interview: Michael Berthold, President and Founder of KNIME, on Data Mining, Startups, and Visual Workflow - Aug 9, 2014.
  We discuss KNIME key features and how it compares to competition, KNIME business model, Pharma, planned development, and transition from an academic project to a company.
• Interview: Michael Berthold, KNIME Founder, on Research, Creativity, Big Data, and Privacy, Part 2 - Aug 12, 2014.
  We discuss interesting research projects, scientific research and creativity, Big Data hype and reality, is privacy still possible, and advice for beginning Data Scientists.
• Becoming a Data Scientist: MS Program, Bootcamp, or MOOCs? - Aug 6, 2014.
  Learn about the different ways to become a data science including a master's degree, bootcamps, or self-learning with MOOCs and their advantages and disadvantages.
• PAW: Predictive Analytics World for Government, Sep 15-18, Washington, DC - Aug 11, 2014.
  Be part of the largest and only vendor-neutral analytics conference for government, Predictive Analytics World for Government. KDnuggets discount.

Software

• OpenML: Share, Discover and Do Machine Learning - Aug 11, 2014.
  OpenML is designed to share, organize and reuse data, code and experiments, so that scientists can make discoveries more efficiently. It is an interesting idea to build a network of machine learning.
• TheWebMiner Price Alert App - Aug 6, 2014.
  Price comparison apps are useful and help make the right purchase decision, but frequently are limited in their abilities. New WebMiner app PriceAlert offers an interesting alternative, now in beta.

News

• MongoHQ becomes Compose, combines ElasticSearch and MongoDB - Aug 6, 2014.
  Database-as-a-service provider MongoHQ offers both MongoDB and ElasticSearch as a service through its platform, renames itself to Compose.
• July 2014 Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining Acquisitions and Startups Activity - Aug 7, 2014.
  July 2014 acquisitions, startups, and company activity in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science: Twitter buys Madbits, WalmartLabs buys Luvocracy, Zillow buys Trulia, Apple buys Booklamp, Yahoo buys Flurry, Salesforce buys RelateIQ, Couchbase, GE, Databricks, and more.
• Top stories for Aug 3-9: Cartoon: Big Data Viz and 7-D Printer; Exclusive: Dell on Data Mining, Statistica future - Aug 10, 2014.
  Cartoon: Big Data Visualization and 7-D Printer; Exclusive: Dell Management on Analytics, Data Mining, Statistica future; Becoming a Data Scientist: MS Program, Bootcamp, or MOOCs?; Big Data Innovation Summit 2014 Toronto highlights.

Opinions

• Top 10 References for applying Big Data and Analytics in Business - Aug 11, 2014.
  See how businesses leverage data analytics for great gain to help others understand the business value of data science projects and provide examples to inspire your own data-driven projects.
• Metrics that Matter - The Key to Perfect Dashboards - Aug 9, 2014.
  Create the perfect data visualization dashboards by learning what metrics matter most to your users and displaying them prominently within the design of the dashboard.
• Six Thinking Hats and the Life of a Data Scientist - Aug 8, 2014.
  Learn about the different "hats" (mindsets) a data scientist should adopt to reach maximum effectiveness in the variety of situations encountered in this emerging field.

Interviews

• Interview: Sujee Maniyam, Elephant Scale on Why Open Source is So Important for Big Data - Aug 8, 2014.
  We discuss the importance of contributing to Open Source, Big Data skills for business managers, Big Data predictions, key qualities sought in data engineers, career advice and more.
• Interview: Sujee Maniyam, Elephant Scale on the Best Free Online Resources to Learn Hadoop - Aug 7, 2014.
  We discuss the startup - Elephant Scale, DIY Hadoop learning, best free online resources for learning Hadoop, getting a good job in Big Data, and the experience of authoring a book - Hadoop Illuminated (available for free).

Reports

• ASE International Conference on Big Data Science 2014: Day 4 Highlights - Aug 8, 2014.
  Highlights from the presentations by Data Science leaders from UC Berkeley, Clark Atlanta Univ, Florida Institute of Technology, Rober Bosh LLC and HP on day 4 of ASE Conference on Big Data Science 2014, Stanford.
• Big Data Innovation Summit 2014 Toronto: Day 2 Highlights - Aug 7, 2014.
  Highlights from the presentations by Big Data leaders from Aviva, Canadian Imperial Bank, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and University Health Network on day 2 of Big Data Innovation Summit 2014.
• Big Data Innovation Summit 2014 Toronto: Day 1 Highlights - Aug 6, 2014.
  Highlights from the presentations by Big Data leaders from TD Bank, Public Health Ontario and First Nations Education Steering Committee on day 1 of Big Data Innovation Summit 2014 in Toronto, Canada.

Webcasts and Webinars

• Upcoming Webcasts on Analytics, Big Data, Data Science - Aug 12 and beyond - Aug 11, 2014.
  Wolfram Experts Live, InfiniDB, Data Mining: Failure To Launch, Market Basket and Customer Analysis with Spotfire, Personalized Healthcare, Data Science at the Command Line, and more.
• Webcast: Data Science at the Command Line, Aug 20 - Aug 12, 2014.
  This webcast will explain how to set up and use the Data Science Toolbox, a free, open-source virtual environment that allows everybody to get started with data science in minutes.
• Webinar: Data Mining: Failure to Launch [Aug 19] - Aug 11, 2014.
  Learn how to get started with predictive modeling and overcome strategic and tactical limitations that cause data mining projects to fall short of their potential. Next webinar is Aug 19.

Courses

• SAS Analytics, Data Mining, Statistics Training - Limited Time Offer - Aug 12, 2014.
  SAS is celebrating training a million users! Don't miss your opportunity to experience the SAS Business Knowledge Series with this special offer. Register by Aug 31 with promo code BKS1M and save.
• EMC Big Data Courses for Data Scientists and Business Leaders - Aug 12, 2014.
  EMC offers industry-leading training and certification to help you meet the Big Data challenges. Get Data Science and Big Data Analytics Starterkit or Big Data Analytics Course for Business Leaders.
• Hands-on Data Mining Training, New York City, Aug 22, $35 (Toronto, Detroit in Sep) - Aug 8, 2014.
  Get hands-on data mining training on topics like regression, classification, decision trees, and other techniques in this course conducted by Salford Systems.
• Vendor-Neutral Hands-On Training in Data Mining [Wash-DC, Sep | Las Vegas, Dec] - Aug 7, 2014.
  Successful analytics in the big data era does not start with data and software, but with hands-on, immersive training and goal-driven strategy - get it from The Modeling Agency.
• Stanford: Learn the science and art of managing people, products, and data - Aug 7, 2014.
  Learn from world-renowned Stanford faculty - get online certificates and take online courses in Data Mining and Applications, Mining Massive Data Sets, Financial Modeling, and more.

Meetings

• PAW: Predictive Analytics World for Government, Sep 15-18, Washington, DC - Aug 11, 2014.
  Be part of the largest and only vendor-neutral analytics conference for government, Predictive Analytics World for Government. KDnuggets discount.
• Berkeley DataLEAD conference, Sep 30 - Oct 2 - Aug 8, 2014.
  The conference will focus on big data applied to real world business, with focus on finance and marketing, but also cover many other facets of data science and applications in technology, retail, education, science, and government.

Jobs

• Netflix: Director - Product Analytics, Data Science and Engineering
• mapropos: President/CEO, Data Science division
• Machine Zone: Data Scientist for World's Largest Mobile MMO
• MasterCard: Business Leader, Product Development, Fraud Data Strategy and Modeling
• Paychex: Risk Modeling Analyst II
• Rule14: Text Mining/Machine Learning Expert
• Dominos: Data Scientist
• Bottomline: Sr. Data Scientist
• Apple: Multivariate Testing Analyst

Top Tweets

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Aug 8-10: Forget SQL vs NoSQL. New trend is HTAP - Aug 11, 2014.
  Forget SQL vs NoSQL. New trend is HTAP: Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing; Metrics that Matter - The Key to Perfect Dashboards; Machine Learning Tutorial: The Max Entropy Text Classifier ; Six Thinking Hats and the Life of a Data Scientist.
• Top KDnuggets tweets, Aug 6-7: Becoming a Data Scientist - Aug 8, 2014.
  Becoming a Data Scientist: MS Program, Bootcamp, or MOOCs?; Statistics is the *least* important part of data science; New Poll: What languages you used for analytics / data mining in 2014; If you love Pizza and #DataScience, here is a unique job for you.
• Top KDnuggets tweets, Aug 4-5 - Aug 6, 2014.
  Ensemble Methods are the backbone of #MachineLearning - a brief history; Data Scientist role shifting, with companies focusing on Developers; To add #MachineLearning for Python: scikit-learn, for Hadoop: Mahout; Meet Fortune 2014 #BigData All-Stars: data scientists, entrepreneurs, CEOs.

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