2014 Apr Publications

• Massachusetts releases Big Data Report 2014 - Apr 30, 2014.
  Massachusetts Big Data Report 2014 (free download) highlights state successes, including almost 500 Big Data companies, $2.5B invested, 5600 students graduating from 14 data science-related programs, and identifies key priorities and growth opportunities.

  Big Data, Industry, Innovation, Massachusetts, Report

• KDnuggets 14:n10, Data Scientist Salary examined; Big Data Highlights; Michael Brodie Interview - Apr 30, 2014.
  Latest analytics/data mining news, including Features, Opinions, Software, News, Webcasts, Courses, Meetings, Jobs, Academic positions, Publications, Top Tweets, and CFP.

  Cartoon, Data Scientist, Medicare, Michael Brodie

• 9 Free Books for Learning Data Mining and Data Analysis - Apr 29, 2014.
  Whether you are learning data science for the first time or refreshing your memory or catching up on latest trends, these free books will help you excel through self-study.

  Alex Ivanovs, Algorithms, Analysis, Data Mining, Free ebook, Programming

• Where are your users? Geo-localization with KNIME - Apr 28, 2014.
  Learn how KNIME can help you improve user understanding through Geo-localization of IP addresses and dynamic visualization. Access free white paper for more details.

  Data Visualization, free download, Geo-Localization, Knime, Rosaria Silipo

• Data Mining Medicare Data – What Can We Find? - Apr 24, 2014.
  Medicare released detailed reimbursement data for 2012: $77 billion paid to more than 880,000 health care providers, by doctor and procedure.We take an initial look and find large variances and potential indicators of fraud.

  Data Mining, Fraud Detection, Healthcare, Medicare

• New Book: Social Media Mining – free PDF download - Apr 22, 2014.
  Social Media Mining integrates social media, social network analysis, and data mining to enable students, practitioners, researchers, and managers to understand the basics and potentials of this field.

  Book, Free ebook, Huan Liu, Social Media, Social Media Analytics

• Data Workflows for Machine Learning - Apr 20, 2014.
  Paco Nathan compares several open source frameworks for Machine Learning workflows, including KNIME, IPython Notebook and related libraries, Cascading, Cascalog, and Spark/MLbase, and proposes 9 criteria to evaluate the best alternatives.

  Data Workflow, IPython, Knime, Machine Learning, Paco Nathan

• KDnuggets 14:n09: Top LinkedIn Groups in 2014; Big Data Vendor Analysis; Teaching Machine Learning - Apr 16, 2014.
  Latest analytics, data mining, and data science stories, including Features, Opinions, Software, News, Webcasts, Courses, Meetings, Jobs, Academic positions, Publications, Tweets, CFP.

  Big Data Vendors, EMC, LinkedIn, Startups, Timeline

• Data Analytics Handbook – Interviews with Data Scientists and Tech Leaders, free download - Apr 12, 2014.
  A young team of UC Berkeley students produced a Data Analytics Handbook - free to download, featuring interviews with data scientists and tech leaders from leading companies including LinkedIn, Cloudera, Facebook, Yelp, and Flurry.

  Cloudera, Data Analytics, Facebook, Handbook, Interview, LinkedIn, Yelp

• Vincent Granville Data Science Book - Apr 12, 2014.
  The Data Science book from Analytic Bridge founder Vincent Granville shows you what employers want and the skill set that separates the quality data scientist from other IT professionals.

  Analytic Bridge, Book, Vincent Granville

• Big Data Vendor Analysis - Apr 10, 2014.
  The Big Data market in hardware, software, and services reached $18.6 billion in 2013. We analyze the vendor data and identify 4 main clusters of Big Data companies.

  Big Data Market, Big Data Services, Big Data Software, IBM, Palantir, SAP, SAS, Wikibon

• Interactive Big Data Timeline - Apr 8, 2014.
  A very interesting interactive Big Data timeline takes you from the beginning of information overload in 1880s to Business Intelligence, World Wide Web, Hadoop, Cloud, and more.

  3Vs of Big Data, ERP, Gil Press, Hadoop, IBM, Information Overload, Timeline

• Book Review: Data Just Right - Apr 7, 2014.
  An introduction to technology and software at play in the current quest to define the Big Data Analytics computing paradigm, the book Data Just Right is reviewed in detail here.

  Apache Mahout, Book, Hadoop, Machine Learning, Pig, Python, R, Review

• Three ways to extract business value from analytics - Apr 4, 2014.
  Data Driven Business recently interviewed 9 corporate analytics experts from companies like Johnson & Johnson, L’Oreal Paris, and Google about current trends in analytics and what companies should focus on in 2014 and found 3 main area of focus.

  Business Value, Data Integration, Data Leadership, Decision Making, Personalization

• KDnuggets 14:n08, Is Data Scientist the right career path for you? FiveThirtyEight stumbles - Apr 3, 2014.
  Latest analytics/data mining news, including candid advice on Data Scientist career, FiveThirtyEight stumbles on climate change, Boston Panel on Next Big Thing in Big Data, and White House/MIT Big Data Privacy Workshop report.

  Big Data, Career, Data Scientist, FiveThirtyEight, MIT, Next Big Thing, Privacy, White House

• Book: Visual Analytics of Movement - Apr 2, 2014.
  This new book is about the exciting possibilities created by visual analytics for anyone interested in understanding movement, analyzing movement, or simply make decisions influenced by the way people, animals, and objects move.

  Book, Developers, Movement, Researchers, Spatial, Visual Analytics

• Forrester Research: Build Trusted Data with Data Quality - Apr 1, 2014.
  Key takeaways of the report include: How managing data quality brings IT and the business closer together, Different data quality definitions, and advantages of transparency in data quality.

  Data Quality, Forrester, Lavastorm, Report