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How to find data miners, analytics people, and data scientists


 
  
Do you want more friends that understand cross-validation error, overfitting and SVM?


Sandro Saitta August 26, 2011 by Sandro Saitta

Do you feel lonely? Do you want more colleagues? Especially ones that understand expressions such as validation error, overfitting and SVM? Then you need to find data miners. Here are a few advices on how to find them:

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Gregory Piatetsky, Editor KDnuggets: I would also suggest searching for people working on "Analytics" and "Data Science" - similar, but currently more fashionable terms for "Data mining".

A great way to take part in technical discussions is via many LinkedIn Groups on Analytics/Data Mining. I can suggest

Also, the largest analytics group is probably users of R-project. I especially like www.r-bloggers.com/ network.

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