Wikibon Big Data Capital Markets Day – Big Data NYC 2014
One of the biggest events at Big Data NYC 2014 was the insightful presentation by Jeff Kelly from WikiBon. We provide here the key takeaways.
on Oct 30, 2014 in Big Data, Hadoop, Jeff Kelly, Market Research, New York-NY, NoSQL, Wikibon
Big Data Winter ahead – unless we change course, warns Michael Jordan
We have to have error bars around all our predictions, says machine learning expert Michael Jordan. Otherwise it's gambling, and too many failed predictions can lead to big disappointment with Big Data - a Big Data Winter.
on Oct 30, 2014 in Big Data Winter, Michael Jordan, Overfitting
Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit, Australia: Day 2 Highlights
Highlights from the presentations by Big Data leaders from Paypal, Huawei and Qantas on day 2 of Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit 2014 in Sydney, Australia.
on Oct 28, 2014 in Analytics, Big Data, Conference, Consumer Insights, IE Group, Smartphone, Sydney-Australia, Text Mining
Will Deep Learning take over Machine Learning, make other algorithms obsolete?
Will deep learning will take over machine learning and make other algorithms obsolete, or is it too complex to use on simpler problems? We look at both sides of this discussion.
on Oct 27, 2014 in Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Quora
Making Sense of Public Data – Wrangling Jeopardy – Part 2
Wrangling Jeopardy (Part 2) describes the remaining steps of the data transformation process, detailing how we used Trifacta to structure, clean, enrich and distill Jeopardy data for analysis.
on Oct 27, 2014 in Data Preparation, Data Processing, Jeopardy, Trifacta
Big Data accelerates medical research? Or not?
Take a look at how big data in healthcare brings big opportunities, but along with those opportunities come great risk if statistics aren't carefully applied to those large datasets.
on Oct 26, 2014 in Big Data, Healthcare, Overfitting, Research
Text Mining and Election Analytics in Massachusetts
Election season is coming! Take a deeper look at some political dynamics with indico’s political analysis API.
on Oct 24, 2014 in API, Elections, indico, Massachusetts, Startups, Text Analytics, Web services
Supermarket customers segmentation using Self-Organizing Mapping
See how a leading European supermarket chain improved customer value and profitability and identified key customer groups by applying business intelligence and analytics techniques like self-organizing maps.
on Oct 23, 2014 in Business Intelligence, Clustering, Consumer Insights, Neural Networks
Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit, Australia: Day 1 Highlights
Highlights from the presentations by Big Data leaders from GE Capital, Datawatch and MapR Technologies on day 1 of Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit 2014 in Sydney, Australia.
on Oct 22, 2014 in Conference, Data Visualization, Datawatch, GE, Hadoop, IE Group, MapR, Sydney-Australia
Piketty Revisited: Improving Economics through Data Science
How Data Curation and Data Science Enable More Faithful Economics (In Much Less Time) - a leading database researcher explains.
on Oct 22, 2014 in Data Curation, Economics, Michael Brodie, Tamr, Thomas Piketty
Big Data and Hadoop, Big Data Boot Camp LA
Big Data Boot Camp LA provided attendees a comprehensive understanding of Big Data and Hadoop technologies. Sujee Maniyam provided a good technical overview of Hadoop and current trends. We provide key takeaways.
on Oct 17, 2014 in Big Data, Bootcamp, Elephant Scale, Global Big Data Conference, Hadoop, Los Angeles-CA, Sujee Maniyam, Training
Big Data Is Not Big Context
Learn about common misconceptions when approaching big data problems, and how the ambiguity of human language requires more sophisticated techniques for more accurate understanding.
on Oct 12, 2014 in Big Data, Context, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Analysis
Sports Analytics Innovation Summit 2014 San Francisco: Day 2 Highlights
Highlights from the presentations by Analytics leaders from San Francisco Giants, New York University and LA Dodgers on day 2 of Sports Analytics Innovation Summit 2014 in San Francisco.
on Oct 11, 2014 in Analytics, Conference, Data, IE Group, Metrics, NBA, San Francisco-CA, Sports, Statistics
Salaries in IT – Scrape, refine, and plot case study
Very good case study, showing how to scrape with import.io, refine with OpenRefine, and plot with Plot.ly. Also learn about salaries vs age in Belgium.
on Oct 11, 2014 in Belgium, Data Preparation, Data Visualization, import.io, OpenRefine, Plotly, Salary
Sports Analytics Innovation Summit 2014 San Francisco: Day 1 Highlights
Highlights from the presentations by Analytics leaders from San Francisco 49ers, United States Olympic Committee, and Chelsea FC on day 1 of Sports Analytics Innovation Summit 2014 in San Francisco.
on Oct 10, 2014 in Analytics, Conference, IE Group, NFL, Olympic, San Francisco-CA, Sports
Big Data & Analytics for Retail Summit 2014 Chicago: Day 2 Highlights
Highlights from the presentations by Big Data leaders from The Hershey Company, Gongos, Clarks, and Mediacom on day 2 of Big Data & Analytics for Retail Summit 2014 in Chicago.
on Oct 9, 2014 in Big Data, Business Analytics, Chicago-IL, Conference, IE Group, Location Analytics, Retail, Strategy, Text Mining
SPOTLIGHT: Can Data Science Save Humanity from Mosquitoes and other Deadly Insects? #2
KDnuggets launches Spotlight initiative to bring attention to academic research. The journey begins with Prof. Eamonn Keogh, UCR and his talented student, Yanping Chen, who are applying data mining to save us all from insect-vectored diseases.
on Oct 9, 2014 in Acoustics, Andrew Ng, Data Mining, Interview, Machine Learning, Research, Time Series, UC Riverside, Yanping Chen
Perfume, computer programming, and Harvard
What is the connection between Perfume, computer programming, and Harvard education? Peter Bruce explains.
on Oct 8, 2014 in edX, Harvard, Programming, Statistics.com
Big Data & Analytics for Retail Summit 2014 Chicago: Day 1 Highlights
Highlights from the presentations by Big Data leaders from Sony Pictures Entertainment, Macy's and Nuevora on day 1 of Big Data & Analytics for Retail Summit 2014 in Chicago.
on Oct 8, 2014 in Big Data, Business Analytics, Chicago-IL, Conference, IE Group, Macy's, Retail, Sony
SPOTLIGHT: Can Data Science Save Humanity from Mosquitoes and other Deadly Insects?
KDnuggets launches Spotlight initiative to bring attention to academic research. The journey begins with Prof. Eamonn Keogh and his student, Yanping Chen, who are applying data mining to save us all from insect-vectored diseases.
on Oct 8, 2014 in Data Mining, Eamonn Keogh, Entomology, Interview, Mosquitoes, Skills, Time Series, UC Riverside
Making Sense of Public Data – Wrangling Jeopardy
Trifacta’s Alon Bartur & Will Davis detail their process for transforming or “wrangling” publicly available Jeopardy data found on the web for downstream analysis.
on Oct 7, 2014 in Data Preparation, Data Processing, Data Science Platform, import.io, Jeopardy, Trifacta
Interview: Toni Jones, U-Haul on Deriving Business Insights from Social Media
We discuss social media strategy at U-Haul, the key drivers of a social media campaign, identifying what data to focus on, important metrics, career advice and more.
on Oct 5, 2014 in Advice, Analytics Strategy, Data, Interview, Marketing, Social Media Analytics, Toni Jones, U-Haul
Data science shows surveys may assess language more than attitudes
Breakthrough research shows that current data science approaches may not just supplant traditional surveys (as seen through the Facebook experiments), but also suggests that the last 70 years of foundations for survey science require re-examination.
on Oct 5, 2014 in Data Science, language, PLOS, Semantic Analysis, Surveys
Big Data and Humanitarian Efforts
Discover ways that big data is impacting and improving humanitarianism, including ways it crowdsources accounts of events and disaster relief in the Philippines.
on Oct 3, 2014 in Big Data, Crowdsourcing, Haiti, Kenya, Natural Disasters, Philippines, Social Good
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