- Top news for Mar 24-30: Data Scientists against a Pledge; Top LinkedIn Groups; Klout Big Data Influencers - Mar 31, 2013.
Poll Results: Data Scientists against a Pledge; Klout Top Big Data Influencers; Top LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science;
Top jobs: Data Analytics, Sr. Manager at Accenture Interactive; Data Scientist at Autodesk
- KDD Innovation and Service Awards, nominations due May 31 - Mar 26, 2013.
ACM SIGKDD Innovation and Service Awards recognize outstanding technical innovations and outstanding professional contributions to the field of Big data, Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, and Predictive Analytics.
- Poll Results: Data Scientists against Pledge - Mar 25, 2013.
The recent KDnuggets Poll asked if there should be a Data Scientist Pledge, and results show an interesting split. While majority of data scientists are against a pledge, a majority of non-professionals favor it. Is this a problem for data scientists?
- Top news for Mar 17-23: Top LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining; Tata Big Data Study - Mar 24, 2013.
Data Science Code of Professional Conduct and "Golden Rule"; Top LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science; Tata Big Data Study - Key Findings
Top jobs: MS and PhD Studentships in Data Mining / Machine Learning at BYU; Director, Account Analytics at Dotomi
- Top LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science - Mar 20, 2013.
We investigate most popular LinkedIn groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science.
- Top news for Mar 10-16: GraphLab framework for Machine Learning; Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship in Chicago - Mar 17, 2013.
Salary/Income of Analytics professionals; GraphLab framework for Machine Learning in the Cloud; Data Science Code of Professional Conduct
Top jobs: Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship, Chicago; Data Scientist at Qubit, London
- BigData100: Vote for the Most Influential in Big Data - Mar 14, 2013.
Vote for the most influential Big Data experts on Twitter for #bigdata100
- New Poll: Should there be a Data Scientist Pledge? - Mar 13, 2013.
Many professions have a pledge as a rite of passage for new graduates, and ACM is currently discussing The Pledge of the Computing Professional. Should there be a Data Scientist pledge and what should it contain?
- McDowell Interview: PASS Business Analytics Conference, Microsoft Data Mining - Mar 13, 2013.
I interviewed Douglas McDowell about the PASS Business Analytics Conference, SQL Server, Microsoft Data Mining, less known but useful features of SQL, Big Data and more.
- Data Science Code of Professional Conduct and "Golden Rule" - Mar 11, 2013.
We look at the proposed Data Science Code of Professional Conduct and nominate a "Golden Rule" which summarizes the data scientist ethic.
- Top news for Mar 3-9: Salary/Income of Analytics Pros; Strata 2013 Highlights; SPMF: Sequential Pattern Mining Framework - Mar 10, 2013.
Salary/Income of Analytics/Data Mining/Data Science professionals; Strata Conference Reports and Highlights; SPMF: Sequential Pattern Mining Framework; Top jobs: Data Scientist at Media6Degrees; PhD Candidate in Customer Analytics, Lille/Paris, France;
- Top news for Feb 24 - Mar 2: Analytics Pros Income jumps; Free e-book on Data Science with R - Mar 3, 2013.
Salary/Income of Analytics/Data Mining/Data Science professionals; Free e-book on Data Science with R;
Top jobs: Principal Data Scientist at EA; Machine Learning Researcher at GE Research
- HuffPost Live webcast: Feds Predict the Future - Mar 2, 2013.
I appeared on Feb 27 on HuffPost Live webcast, discussing US intelligence and other government agencies that try to predict the future. What are the implications of the big data revolution for intelligence, privacy, and "pre-crime"?
- Top news, jobs in February - Mar 1, 2013.
Data Scientist Valentine's Day Adjustment; New Poll: Analytics/DM Salary?;
Top jobs: Data Mining Scientist at Apple; Data Analytics Position at Crum and Forster
- Additions to KDnuggets Directory in February - Mar 1, 2013.
Datacatalogs.org, open government data from US, EU, Canada, and new companies, datasets, education, 22 meetings, software, solutions, websites.
