
(see twitter.com/kdnuggets ) for July 12-15 were
- Great explanation: What Exactly Is GitHub Anyway? techcrunch.com/2012/07/14/what-exactly-is-github-anyway/
- Data Mining In Excel book (draft) by Galit Shmueli, Nitin R. Patel, and Peter C. Bruce (free download) bit.ly/Muz6ao
- Prediction Quality Over Statistical Purity - Steve Miller shares insights on forecasting and R #rstats bit.ly/MtAs4t
- An algorithm predicts within 20m your location in 24 hrs by looking at ur friends. Error is 1000m from ur data only bit.ly/M0OAnw
- Key question: More data or better models? It depends on whether there is high variance or high bias bit.ly/NnNAMR
- On Analyzing Unstructured Data: companies should integrate their structured and unstructured data into active analytics bit.ly/LhI7Tl
- Big Data, The Moving Parts: Fast Data, Big Analytics, and Deep Insight bit.ly/LhPKcx
- Can you turn raw data into community tools? @CivicData challenge deadline July 29, cash prizes bit.ly/civdata
- UH Data Mining Hypertextbook - free to instructors bit.ly/SjP77n
- Data Visualization and R expert Hadley Wickham joins Metamarkets as Data Scientist on.mktw.net/N5IJ4z
- #BigData in Politics and Campaigns Microtargeting - they know who you will vote for bit.ly/M3DZ9H
- The Data Scientist is the New Product Manager - @GilPress reports on Boston's first "Data Scientist" meetup bit.ly/PXAWHF