KDnuggets™ News 14:n29, Nov 5
Features | Software | Opinions | News | Webcasts | Courses | Meetings | Jobs | Publications | Tweets | CFP | Quote
Features
- Big Data Winter ahead - unless we change course, warns Michael Jordan - Oct 30, 2014.
We have to have error bars around all our predictions, says machine learning expert Michael Jordan. Otherwise it's gambling, and too many failed predictions can lead to big disappointment with Big Data - a Big Data Winter.
- Wikibon Big Data Capital Markets Day - Big Data NYC 2014 - Oct 30, 2014.
One of the biggest events at Big Data NYC 2014 was the insightful presentation by Jeff Kelly from WikiBon. We provide here the key takeaways.
- DrivenData: Data Science Competitions for Social Good - Nov 4, 2014.
DrivenData plans to bring cutting-edge practices in data science and crowdsourcing to some of the world's biggest social challenges and the organizations taking them on.
- PAW San Francisco - Four Co-located Analytics Events, March 2015 - Nov 4, 2014.
Attend the leading, world-renown events in predictive analytics and text analytics in San Francisco, Spring 2015, and build your skillset and knowledge. Register with Super Early Bird Pricing and KDnuggets discount.
- Top stories in October: Ebola Analytics and Data Science Lessons; Will Deep Learning take over Machine Learning? - Nov 4, 2014.
Ebola Analytics and Data Science Lessons; Will Deep Learning take over Machine Learning, make other algorithms obsolete?; DM Radio: Predictive Tools Are Pervasive, with KDnuggets; Mirador, a free tool for visual exploration.
Software
- LIONoso, a non-profit tool for Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization - Nov 3, 2014.
LIONoso 2.1, developed by LIONlab for non-profit research and academic use, offers flexible training and experimentation for researchers who know what they are doing and want freedom in their ML experimentation.
Opinions
- BigData TechCon San Francisco Report: Focus on Spark - Nov 1, 2014.
BigData TechCon SF 2014 covered a number of data technologies from the open source ecosystem through tutorials and classes. Spark and its libraries were a significant focus of the talks.
News
- Top stories for Oct 26 - Nov 1: Will Deep Learning take over Machine Learning? - Nov 2, 2014.
Will Deep Learning take over Machine Learning, make other algorithms obsolete? Cartoon: Halloween Costume for Big Data; CRISP-DM, still the top methodology for analytics, data mining, or data science projects; Big Data accelerates medical research? Or not?
- Additions to KDnuggets Directory in October - Nov 3, 2014.
17 new meetings including MLConf, H2O World, Deep Learning Innovation Summit, BigDataWeek; Analytics tools from InfoCaptor, analytixBASE, Wizard, uxColor, and more.
Webcasts and Webinars
- Upcoming Webcasts on Analytics, Big Data, Data Science - Nov 4 and beyond - Nov 3, 2014.
Hadoop, Real-time processing, Sentiment Analysis, Telling a Story with Data, Data Mining - Failure to Launch, and more.
Courses
- Course: Practical Machine Learning for Engineers, New York, Nov 10-12 - Nov 4, 2014.
Learn the fundamental concepts of machine learning by working on a dataset of moderate size, using open source software tools. Special KDnuggets discount.
- Comprehensive Data Science Training by Salford Systems, Dec 3-5, Online or San Diego - Nov 4, 2014.
Learn the basics tree-structured data mining with CART, and progress to more advanced topics including Linear, Logistic, Nonlinear, Regularized, Lasso, MARS, TreeNet (Stochastic Gradient Boosting) and RandomForests(r), including Latest Refinements and Model Compression.
Meetings
- PAW San Francisco - Four Co-located Analytics Events, March 2015 - Nov 4, 2014.
Attend the leading, world-renown events in predictive analytics and text analytics in San Francisco, Spring 2015, and build your skillset and knowledge. Register with Super Early Bird Pricing and KDnuggets discount.
- Upcoming Nov - May Meetings in Analytics, Big Data, Mining, Data Science - Nov 3, 2014.
Coming soon: Text Analytics West, Data Analytics Week, H2O World, LT-Accelerate, ICDM, INFORMS, EGC, IKDD, PAW San Francisco, PAW for Workforce, and more.
Jobs
- UBS: Recommender System Specialist - Nov 4, 2014.
Analyze and interpret large amounts of client data in order to identify the specific needs of distinct client groups and to finally work up personalized investment proposals.
- Hyundai Capital America: Principal Statistician - Oct 31, 2014.
Managing the design, development, and implementation of statistical services to assess Loan and Credit Portfolio risk status and trends in Commercial and Consumer Loan Portfolio.
- MassMutual: Data Engineer - Oct 30, 2014.
An exceptional data engineer to build and maintain big data infrastructure to support the development of a strategic data asset and the execution of data science projects.
- DBS Bank (Singapore): VP, Data Scientist - Oct 30, 2014.
Assess business needs and define analytical strategy, data & technology requirements. Develop models and perform statistical analysis to predict customer behavior across full range of consumer banking products.
Publications
- Forrester Research: It's Time For A User-Driven Enterprise BI Strategy - Nov 4, 2014.
This report deconstructs the inherent conflict between IT and business users and presents an innovative action plan that gets both sides aligned in order to win, serve, and retain customers. Download free report.
- Free Urban Data - What's It Good For? - Nov 1, 2014.
See how the increasing availability of free urban datasets that has come with more cities participating in free data programs can be applied to solve interesting problems in this Big Data article.
Top Tweets
- Top KDnuggets tweets, Oct 31 - Nov 2 - Nov 3, 2014.
Best Infographics of the Year: Nate Silver on 3 Keys to Great Information Design;
The invention of the Equals Sign jump-started math;
A Great Collection of Machine Learning Algorithms;
LinkedIn breaking up its data science team. - Top KDnuggets tweets, Oct 29-30 - Oct 31, 2014.
The #strataconf debate: If You Can't Code, You Can't Be a Data Scientist;
13 Machine Learning Books recommended by Berkeley machine learning expert;
Data Blending for Dummies - free ebook from Alteryx;
Data Science 2.0, upcoming book from Vincent Granville. - Top KDnuggets tweets, Oct 27-28 - Oct 29, 2014.
Dilbert on inability of designers predict results of A/B tests;
Marc Andreessen @pmarc, web pioneer, VC @a16z on #BigData, upending finance;
Will Deep Learning take over Machine Learning, make other algorithms obsolete?
Data Scientists don't wear bowties!
CFP - Calls for Papers
- Due Nov 17, Social Network Analysis and Information Systems, special issue , Guest Editors: Martine Collard, Marko Bajec, Rebecca Deneckere, Panagiotis Karampelas
- Due Dec 14, SBP-2015 Tutorial proposals: Int. Conf. on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction , Washington DC, USA. Mar 31 - Apr 3, 2015
- Due Dec 15, Neural Networks Special Issue: Neural Network Learning in Big Data , Guest Editors: Asim Roy (ASU), Kumar Venayagamoorthy (Clemson), Nikola Kasabov (Auckland U. of Technology), Irwin King, (CUHK)
- Due Jan 8, The Int. Conf. on Digital Information Processing, Data Mining, and Wireless Communications (DIPDMWC2015) , Dubai. Jan 28-30, 2015
- Due Mar 17, 17th Int. Conf. on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2015), at DEXA 2015 (www.dexa.org) , Valencia, Spain. Sep 1-5, 2015
- Due Jun 16, SOTICS 2015, The Fifth Int. Conf. on Social Media Technologies, Communication, and Informatics , Barcelona, Spain. Nov 15-20, 2015