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) KDnuggets™ News 15:n16, May 20: 7 Techniques for Dimensionality Reduction; Who are the real Data Scientists?
Seven Techniques for Data Dimensionality Reduction; Will the Real Data Scientists Please Stand Up. Most Viewed Data Mining Videos on YouTube; Should Data Science Really Do That?
Features | Software | Opinions | Interviews | Reports | News | Webcasts | Courses | Meetings | Jobs | Publications | Tweets | CFP | Quote
Features
- Seven Techniques for Data Dimensionality Reduction
- Will the Real Data Scientists Please Stand Up?
- Most Viewed Data Mining Videos on YouTube
- Should Data Science Really Do That?
- Cartoon: How Smart Do You Look?
- Interview: Antonio Magnaghi, TicketMaster on Unifying Heterogeneous Analytics through Lambda Architecture
- PAW Chicago: Five Unbeatable Analytics Workshops
Software
Opinions
- R vs Python, why each is better
- Big Data Lessons from Microsoft "how-old" Experiment
- Strategies for Monetizing Big Data
- How to Lead a Data Science Contest without Reading the Data
- Data Scientists Thoughts that Make Me Happy: Chris Wiggins
- Surprising Random Correlations
- Cloud Machine Learning's Ostrich Mania & Uncanny Valley
Interviews
- Interview: Antonio Magnaghi, TicketMaster on Why Honesty is Key for Analytics Success
- Interview: Sheridan Hitchens, Auction.com on Customer Lifetime Value as the Cornerstone for Marketing Analytics
- Interview: Hobson Lane, SHARP Labs on How Analytics can Show You "All the Light You Cannot See"
- Interview: Hobson Lane, SHARP Labs on the Beauty of Simplicity in Analytics
Reports
News
- Top stories for May 10-16: Poll: Analytics, Data Mining software used; 3 things about Data Science not in books
- Last chance - Participate in the Rexer Analytics 2015 Data Miner Survey - before it closes May 30
Webcasts and Webinars
- Upcoming Webcasts on Analytics, Big Data, Data Science - May 19 and beyond
- Stanford Webinar: Big Data + Electronic Health Records = Better Healthcare, June 18
Courses
- PAW Chicago: Five Unbeatable Analytics Workshops
- INFORMS Analytics courses: Discrete-Event Simulation, Essential Practice Skills for Analytics Professionals
Meetings
Jobs
Publications
- ebook: Learning Apache Mahout, Big Data Analytics
- ebook: Learning Apache Mahout Classification
- Data Science for Workforce Optimization: Reducing Employee Attrition
Top Tweets
CFP - Calls for Papers
- Due May 31, Track on Web and Text Intelligence (WTI 2015)
- Due Jun 1, Int. Journal of Big Data Research (Elsevier)
- Due Jun 5, 15th Int. Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD'15)
- Due Jun 18, Strata + Hadoop World Singapore, apply to speak
- Due Jun 19, ACM BCB 2015 Workshop on Computational Health Science (CHS)
- Due Jul 3, ACTION15: Actionable Analytics for SE workshop
- Due Jul 17, The Ninth ACM Int. Conf. on Web Search and Data Mining
- Due Jul 20, DINA'2015: 2nd Workshop on Data Integration and Applications
- Due Jul 27, The 5th Int. Workshop on Climate Informatics
- Due Aug 24, ICDM 2015 Contest: Drawbridge Cross-Device Connection
Quote
The great thing about predictions is that you can be wrong, Data Scientists Thoughts that Make Me Happy: Chris Wiggins
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