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15 Mathematics MOOCs for Data Science; Are you trying to acquire Machine Learning Skills?; Top 10 Quora Machine Learning Writers and Their Best Advice; The Master Algorithm - new book by top ML researcher.
Features | Software | Opinions | Interviews | News | Webcasts | Courses | Meetings | Jobs | Publications | Tweets | CFP | Quote
Features
- 15 Mathematics MOOCs for Data Science
- Are you trying to acquire Machine Learning Skills?
- Top 10 Quora Machine Learning Writers and Their Best Advice
- Exclusive Interview: Big Data and Data Science at UN
- The Master Algorithm - new book by top Machine Learning researcher Pedro Domingos
- SentimentBuilder: Visual Analysis of Unstructured Texts

Software
- BABELNET 3.5, Largest Multilingual Dictionary and Semantic Network
- Dataiku Data Science Studio, now also runs on Apache Spark
- Harness the Power of Your Data, See Anaconda In Action at Strata NYC
Opinions
- What Types of Questions Can Data Science Answer
- Data Lake vs Data Warehouse: Key Differences
- Workforce Data Science: Does Talent Development Increase Performance Over Time?
- Opentext Data Driven Digest, Sep 18: Money and Finance
- Dissecting the Big Data Twitter Community through a Big data Lens
- Support "Talking Machines" - the best podcast on Machine Learning, Data Science and AI
- Data Science Data Logic
- Deep Learning and Artistic Style - Can art be quantified?
- Doing Data Science at Twitter
- Forecasting revenue for a hospital - case study
Interviews
News
- Top stories for Sep 20-26: 15 Mathematics MOOCs for Data Science; Support "Talking Machines" - best podcast on Machine Learning
- Hadoop Maturity Survey: The Tipping Point
- MLconf Industry Impact Student Research Award Sponsored by Google
- O'Reilly Releases 2015 Data Science Salary Survey
- Top stories for Sep 13-19: Trying to acquire Machine Learning Skills? Deep Learning and Artistic Style
- Top 10 Quora Data Science Writers and Their Best Advice
Webcasts and Webinars
Courses
- MOOC: "Process Mining: Data science in Action" repeats in Oct 2015
- Machine Learning Course. Learn to build solutions, Delft, Netherlands, 16-20 November
- SFBayACM Silicon Valley Data Science Camp 2015
- UC Berkeley: MS in Data Science Online
- TMA Predictive Analytics Data Mining Training [San Jose, Dec 7-11]
- A New MOOC on Strategic Business Analytics
Meetings
- Strata NYC Live Streaming info and Expo Hall Plus passes
- Polyanalyst User Conference 2015, Oct 21-22, Bloomington, IN
- H2O World 50% off for 24 hours only - Open Source Machine Learning
- Peer-to-Peer Event for Data Chiefs, BI, Analytics Leaders, Austin, Dec 7-9 - KDnuggets discount
- Open Data Science West, San Francisco, Nov 13-14
Jobs
- EPA: Text Mining Specialist
- Purdue Pharma: Manager, Marketing Analytics
- Blast Analytics & Marketing: Technical Business Analyst
- Blizzard: Senior Data Scientist
- U. of San Francisco: Tenure Track Professor, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science
- AspenTech: Data Scientist
- SlideRule: Data Science Course Mentor (online)
- AIMRx: Data Scientist Consultant - Immediate Need
- PeachIH: Machine Learning Specialist (Singapore)
- Altx: Data Engineer
Publications
Top Tweets
CFP - Calls for Papers
- Due Nov 15, IEEE BigDataService 2016: IEEE Int. Conf. on Big Data Computing Service and Applications
- Due Nov 16, FLAIRS 2016, The 29th Int. FLAIRS Conf.
Quote
"Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models." - George Box