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• Globys: Research Scientist – Dynamic Bayesian Networks - Mar 31, 2014.
  
  Developing core science into advanced technical capabilities that work on real-world problems at scale, presenting to stakeholders, and delivering the output to software architects.

  Bayesian Networks, Seattle-WA

• Exclusive Interview: Richard Socher, founder of etcML, Easy Text Classification - Mar 31, 2014.
  
  An exclusive interview with Richard Socher, co-founder of etcML, a new and free tool for helping users with creating classifiers for text using machine learning.

  etcML, Machine Learning, Richard Socher, Startups, Text Classification

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Mar 28-30: SAS vs R vs Python, ecosystem comparison; Practical Data Science with R - Mar 31, 2014.
  
  SAS vs. R vs. Python - Which should you learn?; New Book: Practical Data Science with R ; Is Data Scientist the right career path for you? Candid advice; Must read books for people interested in Analytics.

  Advice, Book, Career, Data Scientist, Python, R, SAS

• Information Management 10 More Big Data Companies - Mar 30, 2014.
  
  Information Management selects 10 additional less known but promising companies offering Big Data platforms, solutions, and services.

  Appuri, Fractal Analytics, Scientel, Skytree, Think Big Analytics

• Top stories for Mar 23-29 - Mar 30, 2014.
  
  Data Scientists Salary Poll: US, Canada, Australia lead; Is Data Scientist the right career path for you? New Book: Practical Data Science with R; Test your numbersense.

  Book, Career, Data Scientist, Dell, Numbersense, R, Salary, StatSoft

• Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories: Member of Research Staff – Predictive Analytics - Mar 29, 2014.
  
  Perform original research in data analysis, machine learning, predictive data modeling, time series prediction, anomaly detection, or visualization for large-scale data sets.

  Cambridge-MA, Mitsubishi

• New Book: Practical Data Science with R - Mar 29, 2014.
  
  This new book will help you learn and apply the R programming language and statistical analysis techniques to carefully explained examples based in marketing, business intelligence, and decision support.

  Book, Business Intelligence, Data Science, Decision Support, R, Statistics

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Mar 26-27: Watch “Statistics with R for newbies”; Coursera free #DataScience courses - Mar 28, 2014.
  
  Also free ebooks on Practical Machine Learning: Innovations in Recommendations, and Apache Hive - How to access big data on Hadoop with SQL/HiveQL.

  Apache Hive, Coursera, Hadoop, Machine Learning, newbies, R, Recommendations, Statistics

• Nate Silver FiveThirtyEight tackles Climate Change, fails on Data Science - Mar 28, 2014.
  
  Nate Silver FiveThirtyEight forays into climate science and drowns in criticism for bad data analysis. We examine a basic data science question: Can we tell if natural disasters are related to climate?

  Climate Change, FiveThirtyEight, Munich Re, Nate Silver, Natural Disasters

• Is Data Scientist the right career path for you? Candid advice - Mar 28, 2014.
  
  Candid advice from an industry veteran reveals the true picture behind the much-talked-about Data Scientist "glamour" and helps people have the right expectations for a Data Science career.

  Advice, Career, Data Science, Data Scientist, Hadoop, Paco Nathan, Recommendation, Visualization

• Swiss Analytics Magazine launched - Mar 28, 2014.
  
  The very first issue of the Swiss Analytics Magazine is now available online. The primary objective of this publication is to provide original analytics content to Swiss practitioners.

  Analytics, Magazine, Recommendations, SAA, Sandro Saitta, Switzerland

• Fractal Analytics Interview Highlights - Mar 27, 2014.
  
  Fractal Analytics CEO on starting the company, competing with the best, managing attrition, attributes he looks for when hiring, 4 different analytics career tracks, strategic bets, and advice for starting data scientists.

  Advice, Career, Fractal Analytics, Hiring, Interview

• Boston AnalyticsWeek Panel Highlights: Next Big Thing in Big Data - Mar 27, 2014.
  
  Boston AnalyticsWeek opens with a vigorous panel discussion, which debates the next "Big Thing" in #BigData, Replacing data scientists by an algorithm, and is Privacy a big obstacle to Big Data?

  AnalyticsWeek, Automating, Big Data, Boston-MA, Gregory Piatetsky, Next Big Thing, Panel, Paul Sonderegger, Privacy

• Upcoming Webcasts on Analytics, Big Data, Data Science – Mar 27 and beyond - Mar 27, 2014.
  
  Best Practices in Predictive Analytics, Best Decision Trees with Angoss 9, Thick Data, In-Database Scalable R and Python, Data Mining - Failure to Launch, Algorithms in Online Games, and more.

  Hadoop, Online Games, RapidInsight, SciDB, Wharton

• White House-MIT Big Data Privacy Workshop – Top Researcher Reports - Mar 27, 2014.
  
  Leading database researcher Michael Brodie gives a summary of an important White House-MIT Big Data Privacy workshop and discusses privacy, government, technical solutions, Edward Snowden, SXSW, and technical challenges associated with big data and privacy.

  Big Data Privacy, CSAIL, Michael Brodie, Michael Stonebraker, MIT, Snowden, SXSW, White House

• SciDB: Big Analytics without Big Hassles: In-Database Scalable R and Python, Apr 10 - Mar 27, 2014.
  
  Next advance in analytical databases from renowned database researcher Mike Stonebraker - watch April webinar 10 about SciDB - open source, array database with native scalable complex analytics, programmable from R and Python.

  Array database, Michael Stonebraker, Python, R, SciDB, Webcast

• WCAI: Measuring Skill Level and Optimizing Player-Matching Algorithms in Online Games - Mar 26, 2014.
  
  New research opportunity from Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI) involves a unique data set from a major gaming company, with historic behavioral data for 9.5 million users who played 882K games. Learn more on Apr 25.

  Customer Analytics, Online Games, Optimization, Skills, Video Games, WCAI, Wharton

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Mar 24-25: Is a Data Science Certificate sufficient? Kaggle branches beyond competitions - Mar 26, 2014.
  
  My answer to Is a Data Science Certificate sufficient to become a data scientist? Kaggle branches beyond data mining competitions, will build oil and gas vertical solution; Vicarious, developing brain-inspired machine learning, gets $40M from Mark and Elon; OkCupid "Love" Analytics finds best three questions.

  Data Science Certificate, Kaggle, Mark Zuckerberg, Oil & Gas, OkCupid, Vicarious

• Identity Fraud and Analytics – An Overview - Mar 26, 2014.
  
  With the consumers being increasingly concerned about identity theft, leading financial institutions are leveraging analytics to detect Identity Fraud as it happens.

  Boosting, Decision Trees, FCRA, Identity Fraud, Identity Theft, Logistic Regression, Machine Learning

• KDnuggets 14:n07, Data Scientist Salary; Test your Numbersense; 4 LinkedIn steps - Mar 26, 2014.
  
  Latest Analytics, Big Data, Data science and Data mining news, including Features, Opinions, Software, News Briefs, Webcasts, Courses, Meetings, Jobs, Academic positions, Top Tweets, and CFP .

  Daniel Tunkelang, LinkedIn, Numbersense, Salary

• Additions to KDnuggets Directory in February - Mar 25, 2014.
  
  CSMR Data Miner software suite, Ascribe text mining software, and more added to KDnuggets in February 2014.

  Added to KDnuggets, Asia, CSMR Data Miner, Edvancer, Fotetah, Text Mining

• MMDS 2014: Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets, Berkeley, June 2014 - Mar 25, 2014.
  
  The MMDS 2014 will address algorithmic, mathematical, and statistical challenges in modern statistical data analysis. Registration is open and you can apply to present a poster.

  Algorithms, Berkeley-CA, High-dimensional, Massive Datasets, Poster, Workshop

• What is numbersense – test yours - Mar 25, 2014.
  
  Kaiser Fung, Marketing and Analytics expert, and author of "Numbersense" book, explains what is numbersense in the age of Big Data. Test yours.

  Anomaly Detection, Distribution, Kaiser Fung, Missing Values, Numbersense, Outliers, US Census

• Monash University: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Applied Machine Learning - Mar 25, 2014.
  
  We seek an outstanding machine learning researcher with experience applying machine learning to solve real-world problems.
• SAS Analytics U to offer free software, MOOCs - Mar 25, 2014.
  
  The new SAS University Edition and already established SAS OnDemand for Academics offer free use of SAS foundational technologies, ideal for data and statistical analysis in teaching, research and self-paced learning.

  Academics, Free, MOOC, SAS, SAS Certification, SAS Programming

• KDnuggets Exclusive: Interview with Anjul Bhambhri, VP of Big Data Products at IBM - Mar 25, 2014.
  
  KDnuggets talks with Anjul Bhambhri, IBM’s Vice President of Big Data Products about Big Data Trends, developing the Big Data capabilities in-house vs. outsourcing, five crucial steps to adopting a success big data strategy and advice for beginners.

  Advice, Big Data Strategy, Challenges, Data Science, IBM, In-house, Interview, Outsourcing, Watson

• Gartner 2014 Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms – view report - Mar 25, 2014.
  
  Pioneering predictive analytics vendor RapidMiner was positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the first "Gartner Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms" - view the full report.

  Advanced Analytics, Gartner, Magic Quadrant, RapidMiner

• Dell Buys Statsoft to Fill a Data-Mining Void - Mar 24, 2014.
  
  Dell buys StatSoft, a major provider of statistical, data mining, and text analytics software. Is it filling an important void to help Dell become more of a software company, or an uninspired acquisition?

  Acquisitions, Data Mining, Dell, StatSoft

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Mar 21-23: Machine Learning in Parallel with SVM; Good Data Sets for Data Science Practice - Mar 24, 2014.
  
  Machine Learning in Parallel with SVM, GLM; Good Data Sets for Data Science Practice: Big enough, requires data engineering, rich; Cartoon: Why Madame Zaza, Fortune Teller, changes to Predictive Analytics; Top 45 #BigData Tools and Platforms for Developers

  Cartoon, Data Science Platform, Datasets, Machine Learning, Platform, Support Vector Machines, Tools

• Webinar, Apr 3: Best Decision Trees just got better with Angoss KnowledgeSEEKER 9.0 - Mar 23, 2014.
  
  This Apr 3 webinar will show how KnowledgeSEEKER 9.0 will make your modeling faster with automated workflow for building, refreshing, and reusing workflows - all with the click of a button.

  Angoss, Decision Trees, KnowledgeSEEKER 9.0, Workflow

• Top stories for Mar 16-22: Machine Learning in 7 Pictures; How Many Data Scientists are out there? - Mar 23, 2014.
  
  Machine Learning in 7 Pictures; How Many Data Scientists are out there? Predictive Analytics Marketplaces; Data Scientist Salary Survey; How Deep Learning Analytics Mimic the Mind.

  Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Marketplace, Predictive Analytics, Salary

• PAW: Predictive Analytics World, Toronto, May 12-15 - Mar 22, 2014.
  
  Predictive Analytics World in Toronto brings you who is who in predictive analytics, with keynotes from top experts. Join PAW and access the best keynotes, sessions, workshops, and more. See tips on getting approval to attend.

  John Elder, Obama for America, PAW, Predictive Analytics World, Talent Analytics, Toronto-Canada

• Amazon: Machine Learning Engineer – Applied Machine Learning Team - Mar 22, 2014.
  
  From automated targeting to threat detection, our problem space is deep and diverse and we have access to the planet-scale computing resources and datasets required to solve these difficult problems.
• U. Helsinki and Aalto U.: Postdoctoral and Research Fellows in CS and IT - Mar 22, 2014.
  
  Aalto and Helsinki, two leading universities in Finland, are looking for researchers in several areas, including advanced search methods, Big data processing, and crowdsensing applications. Apply by Apr 6.

  Aalto, Complex Systems, Helsinki-Finland, Postdoc

• INFORMS: The Business of Big Data Conference, San Jose, June 22-24 - Mar 21, 2014.
  
  The new INFORMS conference would help Analytics Professionals and Operations Researchers to get from data discovery to real business value. Sign up at the early rates until May 23.

  Business, INFORMS, San Jose-CA

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Mar 19-20: Bitcoin 101 – everything you need to know; Top IPython Notebooks at #strataconf - Mar 21, 2014.
  
  Bitcoin 101 - covers everything you need to know, how it is traded, history, and future; Top 7 IPython Notebooks used for presentations at #strataconf; Online (streaming) Learning with Microsoft AdPredictor algorithm; IBM creates fraud & financial crimes prevention unit, leveraging #BigData Analytics.

  Bitcoin, Fraud Prevention, IBM, IPython, Microsoft, Online advertising, Strata

• Data Scientists Salary Survey: US, Canada, Australia lead - Mar 21, 2014.
  
  Data Scientists Salary Survey shows that industry data scientists are in a sweet spot, especially in US, Canada, and Australia, with average salary $135K. European and Asian data scientists salaries are significantly lower.

  Asia, Australia, Canada, Data Scientist, Europe, Industry, Poll, Salary, USA

• Zipfian Academy: Become a Data Scientist in 12 Intense Weeks - Mar 20, 2014.
  
  Learn the practical skills you need through our immersive program in San Francisco. Zipfian Academy alumni have joined some of the top data science teams in Silicon Valley.

  Data Science Education, Machine Learning, San Francisco-CA, Statistical Analysis, Zipfian Academy

• Kreditech: Data Scientist – Web Analytics - Mar 20, 2014.
  
  Use advanced business analytics over web traffic to optimize customer experience, help us understand and maximize return on investment for our marketing.
• Kreditech: Junior Data Scientist – Business Analyst - Mar 20, 2014.
  
  If you a data scientist by heart and soul, search for a demanding application for machine learning, value creative approaches, and want to work in Hamburg, this job is for you.

  Credit Risk, Hamburg-Germany

• FICO Livecast: Analytically Powered Applications Driving Success, Mar 27 - Mar 20, 2014.
  
  Learn how the world leading companies are building and using analytically powered applications to be more responsive to their customers, presented by Forrester research and FICO.

  Applications, Customer Analytics, Decision Management, FICO, Forrester

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Mar 17-18: NSA metadata can find medical/financial conditions; Machine Learning in 7 Pictures - Mar 19, 2014.
  
  Stanford students show NSA metadata can find medical, financial conditions; Machine Learning in 7 Pictures ; Social Networks are investing big in Artificial Intelligence; 7 Key Skills of Effective Data Scientists.

  Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Metadata, NSA, Privacy, Skills, Social Networks, Stanford

• Exclusive: Interview with Daniel Tunkelang, Head of Query Understanding at LinkedIn - Mar 19, 2014.
  
  Daniel Tunkelang, Head of Query Understanding at LinkedIn talks about search quality, IR, query understanding, and advice for data science enthusiasts. Don't miss: 4 steps to get your LinkedIn profile show up on top of search results.

  Daniel Tunkelang, Information Retrieval, LinkedIn, Ranking, Search Quality

• How Deep Learning Analytics Mimic the Mind - Mar 19, 2014.
  
  There has been a lot of buzz surrounding the potential impact deep learning will have in the field of analytics. This post looks at the origins of deep learning.

  Deep Learning, DeepMind, FICO, Fraud, Neural Networks, Shallow Learning

• AT&T: Lead Product Development Mgr, Big Data Algorithms and Insights - Mar 19, 2014.
  
  Lead advanced analytics, novel algorithms, interactions with scientific teams currently working on products for the Consumer Insights Platform / Big Data team.
• AT&T: Lead Product Development Engineer Big Data CIP IT Systems - Mar 19, 2014.
  
  Work closely with the Director of Product Development to lead all aspects of Big Data CIP systems architecture design, technical implementation and product deployment.
• KDnuggets 14:n06, How Many Data Scientists? Crossing the Chasm and Big Data; Trifacta vs Paxata - Mar 19, 2014.
  
  Latest analytics, data mining, and data science news, including How Many Data Scientists are out there, exclusive interviews with Geoffrey Moore (Crossing the Chasm), Paco Nathan (Apache Mesos and Big Data Math), and Quentin Clark (Power of BI), and LIONbook completed.

  Crossing the Chasm, Gregory Piatetsky, LIONbook, Machine Learning, Paco Nathan, Paxata, Quentin Clark, Trifacta

• Open Analytics Summit – Chicago, March 27 – KDnuggets discount - Mar 18, 2014.
  
  The Open Analytics Summit, Chicago, March 27 is a great place for CTOs, Engineers, Developers, Data Scientists, and others to network and learn about open source technologies and big data analytics. Exclusive KDnuggets discount - register today!

  Chicago-IL, Open Analytics, Open Source, Summit

• Need more insight into Web analytics and intelligence? - Mar 18, 2014.
  
  This course will show you how to improve your web site effectiveness and marketing measurements, with state-of-the-art web analytics and data mining techniques and real-life case studies.

  Chicago-IL, Marketing, SAS, SAS Enterprise Miner, Web Analytics

• Data Mining Best Practices – coming to a city near you! - Mar 18, 2014.
  
  The "Data Mining: Principles and Best Practices" course, presented by SAS and Elder Research, introduces you to the power and potential of data mining and shows you how to discover useful patterns and trends from data.

  Best Practices, Boston-MA, Chicago-IL, Data Mining, Elder Research, New York-NY, San Francisco-CA, SAS

• Alpine Data expects faster, easier Data Science with Spark - Mar 18, 2014.
  
  Alpine Data Labs becomes one of the first companies to be certified on Apache Spark, reported up to 100x faster than Hadoop. Alpine answers 3 questions from KDnuggets.

  Alpine, Apache Spark, Collaborative, Databricks, Hadoop, Workflow

• Predictive Analytics Marketplaces: Viable Solution to the Data Scientist Shortage Crisis? - Mar 18, 2014.
  
  We examine strengths and weaknesses of several approaches for alleviating the shortage of data scientists.

  Data Scientist, Marketplace, Predictive Analytics, Shortage, Strengths, Weaknesses

• Big Data Library on Demand: The Leading Edge of Data Science - Mar 18, 2014.
  
  IE group Big Data Library offers many interesting presentations on demand. This week it is "The Leading Edge of Data Science".

  Cyber Psychology, Data Science, On demand, Presentation, Samsung

• Machine Learning in 7 Pictures - Mar 18, 2014.
  
  Basic machine learning concepts of Bias vs Variance Tradeoff, Avoiding overfitting, Bayesian inference and Occam razor, Feature combination, Non-linear basis functions, and more - explained via pictures.

  Basis functions, Bayesian, Concepts, Machine Learning, Pictures, Variance

• U. of Melbourne: Postdoc in Data Mining - Mar 17, 2014.
  
  The position requires a PhD, with research experience in data mining and high quality publications. Expertise in graph mining and time series mining is also desirable.

  Australia, Data Mining, Melbourne, Postdoc

• Trifacta – Tackling Data Wrangling with Automation and Machine Learning - Mar 17, 2014.
  
  Trifacta wants to solve the important problem of data cleaning and transformation by building better interfaces which use machine learning. It then aims to help enterprises make sense of their disparate data sources and cut down on time needed to prepare data for data science.

  Data Preparation, Joseph Hellerstein, Paxata, Trifacta

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Mar 14-16: Is Apache Spark the Next Big Thing? R Meta-Book – best CRAN posts assembled - Mar 17, 2014.
  
  Apache Spark promises to be the Next Big Thing in #Big Data - 100x faster than #Hadoop; An R Meta-Book - best CRAN posts assembled; The Beauty of pi - the fastest (and most incomprehensible) formula; Tips for Hiring Data Scientists: look for quants with business hustle.

  Apache Spark, Book, CRAN, Hiring, pi, R, Ramanujan

• Innocentive: INSTINCT – The IARPA Trustworthiness Challenge - Mar 16, 2014.
  
  This challenge investigates novel statistical techniques to identify neurophysiological correlates of trustworthiness. Deadline: May 5.

  Challenge, Competition, IARPA, Innocentive, Neurophysiology, Trust

• Top stories for Mar 9-15: How Many Data Scientists? - Mar 16, 2014.
  
  How Many Data Scientists are out there? LIONbook: Machine Learning + Intelligent Optimization - completed, free personal download; Boston AnalyticsWeek: Big Data and Analytics Unconference, March 24-28; Upcoming Webcasts on Analytics, Big Data, Data Science.

  Boston-MA, Data Scientist, free download, LIONbook, Machine Learning, Optimization, Unconference

• SciCast Crowdsourcing search for Malaysian Air Flight MH370 - Mar 15, 2014.
  
  Where will the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 be found and what happened to it? Scientific crowdsourcing site SciCast has some predictions.

  Crowdsourcing, Malaysia Airlines, MH370, Scicast

• New book: Big Data, Mining, and Analytics: Components of Strategic Decision Making - Mar 15, 2014.
  
  This book ties together big data, data mining, and analytics to explain how readers can leverage them to extract valuable insights from their data.

  Book, Business Intelligence, Decision Making, Text Mining, Tom Davenport

• Webinar: Best Decision Trees just got better with Angoss KnowledgeSEEKER 9.0, Apr 3 - Mar 14, 2014.
  
  New KnowledgeSEEKER 9.0 makes your modeling faster with automated workflow for building, refreshing, and reusing workflows - all with the click of a button. Learn more on Apr 3.

  Angoss, Decision Trees, KnowledgeSEEKER 9.0, Webinar, Workflow

• Syracuse U.: Data Science and HCI Faculty Positions - Mar 14, 2014.
  
  Join renowned iSchool faculty and deepen and extend our strengths in data science and human-computer interaction (HCI), including visualization of and analytic approaches to large and heterogeneous data sets.

  Data Science, Faculty, HCI, iSchool, Syracuse-NY

• RootMetrics: Statistical Analyst - Mar 14, 2014.
  
  Join us at RootMetrics where we are providing an accurate view of wireless carrier and connected device performance, and help build a movement for an open mobile market that democratizes mobile performance data.

  Device, Mobile, Performance, Wireless

• KDnuggets Twitter Social Network - Mar 14, 2014.
  
  We examine KDnuggets Twitter social network, created by NodeXL, a free, open-source template for Microsoft Excel for social network analysis.

  Excel, Kirk D. Borne, NodeXL, Social Networks, Twitter

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Mar 12-13: Machine learning explained in 10 pictures; Tutorial: Using Google BigQuery - Mar 14, 2014.
  
  Machine learning explained in 10 pictures. The most important: Bias vs Variance; A Tutorial example: Using Google BigQuery with R; Visualizing Google Analytics Data With R; Exploratory Data Analysis on Udacity: Investigate, Visualize, and Summarize Data Using R.

  Bias, BigQuery, Google, Google Analytics, Machine Learning, R, Udacity, Variance

• KDnuggets Exclusive: Interview with Geoffrey Moore: Crossing the Chasm and Big Data - Mar 14, 2014.
  
  KDnuggets talks with a noted author Geoffrey Moore about his "Crossing the Chasm" book, his vision for Big Data analytics, when Big Data will cross the chasm, and advice for entrepreneurs.

  Adoption, Business Strategy, Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore, Interview, Life Cycle, Strata

• Evolution of Fraud Analytics – An Inside Story - Mar 14, 2014.
  
  The amazing analytic innovations in payment fraud prevention can be grouped into three major categories: large data-set modeling, sparse data-set modeling, and false-positive reductions - a view from the inside.

  False positive, FICO, Fraud analytics, Fraud Prevention, Neural Networks, Sparse data

• Wharton Conference: Successful Applications Of Customer Analytics, May 1 - Mar 14, 2014.
  
  As a research center at the intersection between academics and industry, WCAI will be showcasing presentations that illustrate a high level of rigor but are also broadly accessible to practitioners, with case studies from top companies including MGM Resorts, Cleveland Indians, Pfizer/Kaggle, GE Capital.

  Applications, Customer Analytics, Philadelphia-PA, Predictive Models, Tom Davenport, WCAI, Wharton

• Complimentary Chapter – Numbersense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage - Mar 13, 2014.
  
  Download a chapter of best-selling "Numbersense" book and learn how Groupon deals with predictive modeling challenges.

  Email marketing, Groupon, JMP, Kaiser Fung, Numbersense

• How Many Data Scientists are out there? - Mar 13, 2014.
  
  We examine indeed, LinkedIn, Kaggle, and other sources to investigate how many data scientists - in name and in function - are out there, and how strong is the demand.

  Data Scientist, indeed, Kaggle, LinkedIn, McKinsey

• 6 things to focus on in 2014 analytics strategy - Mar 13, 2014.
  
  The analytics experts from 3 major companies share 6 insights on how to best use analytics to get ahead.

  Analytics Strategy, Data-Driven Business, Focus, HP, InterContinental Hotels, Johnson & Johnson, Webinar

• Scholarships for first-ever Women in Statistics conference, May 15-17, Cary, NC - Mar 13, 2014.
  
  The JMP team and SAS Women’s Initiatives Network want to empower three statistics students by helping them attend the Women in Statistics conference. Apply by April 11.

  Cary-NC, Conference, JMP, SAS, Scholarships, Statistics, Women

• Analyze Data 10X Faster with the Lavastorm Analytics Engine - Mar 13, 2014.
  
  Download your free copy of Lavastorm Analytics Engine Public today and analyze your data faster, handle more volume, eliminate Excel headaches and improve data visibility.

  Analytics Engine, Bloor Group, Business Rules, free download, Lavastorm

• FICO: 20+ Years of Analytics Innovations to fight Fraud - Mar 12, 2014.
  
  FICO infographic shows 20+ years of analytics innovations protecting consumers from payments fraud. It highlights the most significant innovations in anti-fraud analytics for card payments, and offers interesting facts about payment fraud.

  Analytics, FICO, Fraud, Fraud Detection, Fraud Prevention, Infographic, Innovation, Real-time

• Roblox: Sr. Data Scientist - Mar 12, 2014.
  
  ROBLOX allows builders to create elaborate online environments that simulate the real world, then share and play them with the community, and is on a mission to be the global leader in user-generated gaming and creation for all ages.

  Games, Online environments, User-generated games

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Mar 10-11: Deep Learning overview, free book; Best machine learning interview questions - Mar 12, 2014.
  
  Deep Learning: Methods and Application, free book from Microsoft; Best interview questions to evaluate a machine learning researcher; Good list of Machine Learning Libraries in Python: scikit-learn, pandas, Theano, NLTK.

  Dancing, Deep Learning, Healthcare, Interview Questions, Machine Learning, Python, scikit-learn

• Educational Testing Service: Research Director NLP, Speech Processing - Mar 12, 2014.
  
  Lead a team of 26 scientists and engineers in the research and development of fundamental and applied research in NLP and speech processing to address current needs and anticipate future needs of education and assessment.

  Educational Testing, ETS, NLP, Princeton-NJ, Speech

• IBM Big Data & Analytics Heroes: Gregory Piatetsky - Mar 11, 2014.
  
  Meet IBM Big Data and Analytics Hero for this week: Gregory Piatetsky.

  Gregory Piatetsky, Hero, IBM, KDnuggets Honors

• Upcoming Webcasts on Analytics, Big Data, Data Science - Mar 11, 2014.
  
  State of BI, Risk Assessment, Data Science Summit, Large-Scale Real-Time Learning, Data Mining: failure to launch, Online fraud detection, and more.

  BI, Cloudera, Data Science, RapidInsight, Real-time, Risk Assessment

• LIONbook: Machine Learning + Intelligent Optimization – completed, free personal download - Mar 11, 2014.
  
  This book combines two usually separated topics: machine learning and intelligent optimization, and does it with enough technical details to satisfy professionals, but also with concrete examples, vivid images, and fun. Buy a low-cost paperback or ebook (Kindle), or download a free PDF.

  Book, ebook, free download, Kindle, Machine Learning, Optimization

• Sentiment Analysis Symposium Highlights - Mar 11, 2014.
  
  Highlights from Sentiment Analysis Symposium held recently in New York: Affective Computing: sentiment from facial expressions, need to market to a “tribe” of people, social media speed of appearance, IBM notion of an Engaged Employee, and more.

  Affective Computing, Dell, Highlights, IBM, MIT Media Lab, Oxford, Sentiment Analysis, Steve Gallant, Symposium

• Predictive Analytics World Tour - Mar 11, 2014.
  
  Predictive Analytics World is the industry's leading conference series for business professionals, managers and practitioners, held in 2014 in San Francisco, Toronto, Chicago, Boston, London, and Berlin.

  Berlin-Germany, Boston-MA, Chicago-IL, London-UK, PAW, Predictive Analytics World, San Francisco-CA, Toronto-Canada

• Cloudera Data Science Challenge - Mar 10, 2014.
  
  Your task is to analyze a large amount of data from Medicare and try to detect abnormal data -- providers, areas, or patients with unusual procedures and/or claims. Challenge starts March 31, 2014.

  Anomalies, Challenge, Cloudera, Data Science, Medicare

• Lipari Summer School on Computational Social Science - Mar 10, 2014.
  
  The Lipari 2014 Summer School will examine the intersection between parameters that define a city as smart and the enabling technology that guarantees proper planning and implementation. Apply by April 30.

  Italy, Lipari, Smart City, Social Science, Spatio-Temporal, Summer School

• Boston AnalyticsWeek: Big Data and Analytics Unconference, March 24-28 - Mar 10, 2014.
  
  Boston first week-long Big Data And Analytics Unconference wants to bring the limelight back to Analytics, bringing 5 evenings of leading industry speakers and panels, and with registration at nominal $10 to cover expenses.

  Analytics, AnalyticsWeek, Big Data, Boston-MA, Unconference

• KDnuggets Exclusive: Part 2 of the interview with Paco Nathan - Mar 10, 2014.
  
  We discuss about Paco's upcoming book "Just Enough Math", problems with current university curriculum around Math for Data Science and Big Data trends.

  Apache, Big Data Player, BioCoder, Hadoop, Interview, Mesos, Mesosphere, Paco Nathan, Trends

• KDnuggets Exclusive: Interview with Paco Nathan, Chief Scientist at Mesosphere - Mar 10, 2014.
  
  KDnuggets talks with Paco Nathan, computer scientist, OSS developer, author, and advisor about Apache Mesos, Cascading, his books and Big Data trends.

  Apache Mesos, Big Data Player, Cascading, Hadoop, Interview, Mesosphere, Monoids, Paco Nathan

• Dancing Statistics – who says statistics cannot be fun? - Mar 10, 2014.
  
  Four little dance routines explain statistical concepts of frequency distributions, sampling, standard error, variance, correlation, and correlation != causation. Enjoy!

  Correlation, Dancing, Statistics

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Mar 7-9: Experiments with Twitter and IPython; Cloudera Data Scientist Solution Kit - Mar 10, 2014.
  
  Learn very useful skills! #DataScience Experiments with Twitter and IPython; Cloudera Data Scientist Solution Kit; For data science hackers: combining Emacs, ESS and R for Zombies; Mashape - Free Natural Language Processing Service.

  Cloudera, Dancing, Emacs, ESS, IPython, Mashape, NLP, R, Twitter

• Top stories for Mar 2-8: Do’s and Don’t of Data Mining; Wolfram Breakthtough language - Mar 9, 2014.
  
  The Dos and Donts of Data Mining; Wolfram Breakthrough Knowledge-based Programming Language - what it means for Data Science? Introduction to Random Forests for Beginners - free ebook; Exclusive Interview with Quentin Clark, Microsoft Data Platform Group.

  Data Mining, ebook, Interview, Microsoft, Quentin Clark, random forests algorithm, Wolfram

• February Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining companies and startups activity - Mar 9, 2014.
  
  February 2014 acquisitions, startups, and company activity in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science: Cloudant, Klout, Statwing, 300, Palantir, Talent Neuron, BlueKai.

  Acquisitions, Cloudant, Klout, Palantir, Startups

• Future of Consumer Intelligence, May 19-21, KDnuggets Discount - Mar 8, 2014.
  
  FOCI is unique aggregation of diversity across insights, data science, marketing science, social science with technology as a common thread. 20% off with KDnuggets discount.

  Consumer Intelligence, Consumer Loyalty, FOCI, Jer Thorp, Kurzweil, Los Angeles-CA

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Mar 5-6: Data Science Backlash begins; Intro to Random Forests® for Beginners – free ebook - Mar 7, 2014.
  
  Backlash begins: Data Science is not a science, and not a good job prospect; Intro to Random Forests for Beginners - free ebook; Must read for data scientists: Q - new Data Language; Book: R for Business Analytics.

  Backlash, Data Definition, Data Science, ebook, Q, R, random forests algorithm

• U. Bristol: Heilbronn Research Fellowships - Mar 7, 2014.
  
  Work on both your own research and Heilbronn research program, with a focus on applications in data analysis for cybersecurity. Apply by March 28.

  Bristol-UK, Cybersecurity, Fellowship

• Paxata automates Data Preparation for Big Data Analytics - Mar 7, 2014.
  
  Paxata wants to shorten and automate the data cleaning process, by augmenting data from a huge number of sources and by using machine learning to see statistical similarities between the data imported.

  Accel Partners, Data Preparation, MDM, Paxata

• Top stories in February: 3 Ways to test the accuracy; Exclusive Interview with Yann LeCun; One Page R - Mar 6, 2014.
  
  3 Ways to Test the Accuracy of Your Predictive Models; KDnuggets Exclusive: Interview with Yann LeCun, One Page R: A Survival Guide to Data Science with R; Cartoon: Data Scientist Valentine Day Prediction.

  Accuracy, Cartoon, R, Top stories, Valentine's Day, Yann LeCun

• MS in Data Mining, Analytics, and Knowledge Discovery at University Paris 13 - Mar 6, 2014.
  
  This MSc focuses on data mining, business analytics, and knowledge discovery and is well-suited for students with BA in CS/Math/Stats.

  Analytics, Data Mining, France, Knowledge Discovery, Master of Science, Paris-France

• Introduction to Random Forests® for Beginners – free ebook - Mar 6, 2014.
  
  Random Forests is of the most powerful and successful machine learning techniques. This free ebook will help beginners to leverage the power of Random Forests.

  Beginners, Decision Trees, ebook, Free, Kaggle, random forests algorithm, Salford Systems

• KDnuggets Exclusive: Part 2 of the interview with Quentin Clark, CVP, Microsoft Data Platform Group - Mar 6, 2014.
  
  We discuss Microsoft decision to embrace Hadoop as the standard, collaboration with Hortonworks, and advice to newbies in Data Science.

  Advice, Azure HDInsight, Data Platform, Hadoop, Hortonworks, Microsoft, Strata 2014

• KDnuggets Exclusive: Interview with Quentin Clark, CVP, Microsoft Data Platform Group - Mar 6, 2014.
  
  KDnuggets talks with Quentin Clark, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Data Platform Group. In the interview, we discuss Power BI for Office 365, Big Data trends and Microsoft’s strategic decisions.

  Accessibility, Data Platform, Interview, Microsoft, Office 365, Power BI, Quentin Clark, Strata 2014

• Big Data Innovation Summit, Apr 9-10, Santa Clara - Mar 6, 2014.
  
  Listen to 80+ speakers from top companies including JP Morgan Chase, Pfizer, Netflix, Bing, American Express, Samsung, IBM, and learn how to tackle Big Data challenges.

  Innovation, Santa Clara-CA, Summit

• Book: R for Business Analytics - Mar 5, 2014.
  
  This book helps you kick-start with analytics including chapters on data visualization, code examples on web analytics and social media analytics, clustering, regression models, text mining, data mining models and forecasting.

  Business Analytics, R

• SIGKDD Data Science/Data Mining Doctoral Dissertation Award Nominations - Mar 5, 2014.
  
  This annual award by ACM SIGKDD seeks to recognize outstanding research by doctoral candidates in the field of data mining, data science, and knowledge discovery. Submit nominations by Apr 30.

  ACM, Awards, Dissertation, Nominations, SIGKDD

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Mar 3-4: Accenture/MIT data science challenge; Spark graduates, 100x faster than Hadoop - Mar 5, 2014.
  
  Accenture and MIT data science challenge - analyze City of Chicago; Spark graduates from Apache Incubator, 100x faster than Hadoop over in-memory data; Stanford Data Mining, Finance, Statistics Courses Online; Data Mining Cup 2014 - Student Competition starts.

  Accenture, Apache Spark, Chicago-IL, Hadoop, MIT, Online Education, Stanford, Student Competition

• etcML Promises to Make Text Classification Easy - Mar 5, 2014.
  
  etcML is a new and free tool that allows even novice user use the power of machine learning and text classification.

  etcML, Machine Learning, Stanford, Text Classification

• KDnuggets 14:n05, Exclusive: Yann LeCun interview; New Salary Poll; Gartner Analytics MQ - Mar 5, 2014.
  
  Latest analytics/data mining news, including Features (10) | News (6) | Software (5) | Webcasts (1) | Courses (6) | Meetings (5) | Jobs (7) | Academic (1) | Publications (5) | Top Tweets (5) | CFP (18) .

  Advanced Analytics, Awards, Boston-MA, Gartner, SIGKDD, Techcon, Yann LeCun

• Best Practice Partners: Data Scientist - Mar 4, 2014.
  
  Help fix fundamental problems in the healthcare industry, leverage proprietary health care and claims data to create huge financial and societal benefit.

  Claims, Healthcare

• March-June Analytics, Big Data and Data Science Meetings - Mar 4, 2014.
  
  Coming soon: PAW San Francisco, GigaOM Structure, Predictive Analytics/Big Data Innovation Summits, Big Data Techcon, INFORMS Boston, SPB 14, SDM 14, PASS Business Analytics, PAKDD 2014, and many more.

  Boston-MA, Chicago-IL, INFORMS, London-UK, PAW, Philadelphia-PA, San Francisco-CA, Toronto-Canada

• KDnuggets Annual Analytics/Data Science Salary/Income Poll - Mar 4, 2014.
  
  KDnuggets 2013 Analytics/Data Science Salary/Income analysis was a top read story of the year. Please vote - anonymously - in 2014 KDnuggets Analytics & Data Science Salary/Income poll - we promise the results will be interesting!

  Poll, Salary

• Webinar: Building Predictive Apps with BigML API, March 11 - Mar 4, 2014.
  
  BigML interface makes machine learning easy to use, the underlying API provides the same functionality enabling data scientists to quickly implement many machine learning and predictive applications. Learn more on March 11.

  API, BigML, Machine Learning, Python

• Stanford Data Mining, Finance, and Statistics Courses Online - Mar 4, 2014.
  
  With Stanford world-class online certificates, show advanced knowledge in Mining Massive Data Sets, Financial Risk Analysis, and Quantitative Methods in Finance. Spring quarter enrollment until Mar 26.

  Certificate, Data Mining, Finance, Online Education, Stanford

• Vendor-Neutral Hands-On Training in Data Mining [ Los Angeles, April | Wash-DC, May ] - Mar 3, 2014.
  
  Successful analytics in the big data era start not with data or software, but with immersive hands-on training and goal-driven strategy. Get this training from The Modeling Agency.

  Analytic Maturity, Data Mining Training, Los Angeles-CA, TMA, Training, Washington-DC

• Data Mining Cup 2014 – Student Competition – Starts - Mar 3, 2014.
  
  The DMC Competition is one of the largest Data Mining contests in the world, focusing on students. Registration starts Mar 3, task details will be published Apr 2.

  Competition, Data Mining Cup, Germany, Registration, Student Competition

• ACM SIGKDD Innovation and Service Awards – Call for Nominations - Mar 3, 2014.
  
  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.

  ACM, Awards, Data Mining, Innovation, Knowledge Discovery, Nominations, Service, SIGKDD

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Feb 28 – Mar 2: Using R with Twitter – great tutorial; The Dos and Donts of Data Mining - Mar 3, 2014.
  
  Using R with Twitter - great tutorial in Rstudio; The Dos and Donts of Data Mining; Wolfram Breakthrough Knowledge-based Programming Language; Online Data Science Certificates in Analytics and Programming for Data Science.

  Certificate, Data Mining, Online Education, R, Rstudio, Twitter, Wolfram

• Book: Ask, Measure, Learn – Social Media Analytics for Customer Behavior - Mar 3, 2014.
  
  Ask-Measure-Learn is a rare book intended both for a manager and for a data scientist. It presents a framework that helps you ask the right questions, measure the right data, and then learn from the results.

  Book, Customer Behavior, Social Media Analytics

• PAW: Predictive Analytics World Toronto, May 12-15 - Mar 2, 2014.
  
  The experts from leading companies are headed to Toronto to share with you how they are applying predictive analytics through case studies and in-depth sessions at PAW Toronto. KDnuggets Discount.

  PAW, Predictive Analytics World, Toronto-Canada

• Wolfram Breakthrough Knowledge-based Programming Language – what it means for Data Science? - Mar 2, 2014.
  
  The coming Wolfram Programming language, 30 years in making, will probably be the largest, most comprehensive, and most knowledge-based programming language ever, and can be a significant advance for data science.

  Knowledge-Based, Programming, Raspberry Pi, Wolfram

• Top stories for Feb 23 – Mar 1: Exclusive Interview with Yann LeCun; Graf.ly; Gartner MQ for Advanced Analytics - Mar 2, 2014.
  
  KDnuggets Exclusive: Interview with Yann LeCun, Deep Learning Expert, Director of Facebook AI Lab; Graf.ly: Making beautiful, interactive graphs; SAS, IBM, RapidMiner, Knime leaders in Gartner MQ for Advanced Analytics Platforms; The Dos and Donts of Data Mining.

  Facebook, Gartner, Graf.ly, IBM, Knime, RapidMiner, SAS, Yann LeCun

• Adobe: Analytics Engineer / Data Scientist - Mar 1, 2014.
  
  Work with our talented team of designers, developers, and community managers to create products that connect and empower the creative world.

  Adobe, New York-NY

• Why Predictive Analytics Marketplaces are not taking off, and how to fix it - Mar 1, 2014.
  
  Three main hurdles holding back Predictive Analytics Marketplaces are a highly fragmented data mining tools market, limited support for customization, and lack of commitment. We examine how to overcome them.

  How to fix, Hurdles, Marketplace, Predictive Analytics, Snap Analytx

• The Do’s and Don’ts of Data Mining - Mar 1, 2014.
  
  Leading data mining and analytics experts give their favorite do's and don'ts, from "Do plan for data to be messy" to "Do not underestimate the power of a simpler-to-understand solution".
• Online Data Science Certificates: Analytics and Programming for Data Science - Mar 1, 2014.
  
  Statistics.com, a leading provider of online education in statistics and analytics announces two new online certificates for Data Science - "Analytics for Data Science" and "Programming for Data Science".

  Certificate, Data Science, Hadoop, Python, Risk Modeling, SQL, Statistical Modeling, Statistics.com