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Exclusive: Tamr at the New Frontier of Big Data Curation
Our exclusive profile of Tamr (former Data Tamer), the latest startup from legendary Michael Stonebraker, which emerged from stealth mode to address the new field of Big Data Curation.
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Interactive Big Data Timeline
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.
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How Many Data Scientists are out there?
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.
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KDnuggets Exclusive: Interview with Yann LeCun, Deep Learning Expert, Director of Facebook AI Lab
We discuss what enabled Deep Learning to achieve remarkable successes recently, his argument with Vapnik about (deep) neural nets vs kernel (support vector) machines, and what kind of AI can we expect from Facebook.
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Cartoon: Data Scientist Valentine Day Prediction
New KDnuggets cartoon looks at a Data Scientist Valentine's Day prediction.
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7 Steps for Learning Data Mining and Data Science
[http likes 823] How to learn data mining and data science? I outline seven steps and point you to resources for becoming a data scientist.
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Top Research Conferences in Data Mining, Data Science
We examine the top Data Mining and Data Science conferences. The top 5 by field rating are KDD, ICDE, IEEE ICDM, CIKM, and SIAM SDM.
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KDnuggets Exclusive: Interview with Rayid Ghani, Chief Scientist Obama 2012 Campaign
Rayid Ghani was a leading analytics professional before he joined Obama reelection campaign as a Chief Scientist. KDnuggets asks him about analytics role in the campaign, key to success, Big Data bubble, and advice for aspiring data scientists.
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Is Data Science The End of Statistics? A Discussion
Here is an interesting discussion on LinkedIn, started by a provocative post "Data Science: The End of Statistics?" What is the relationship between Data Science and Statistics and in what sense are "Statistics" ending?
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Data Scientist Valentine’s Day Adjustment
Data Scientists may have the sexiest profession of the 21st century, but how do they solve their Valentine's Day problem? New KDnuggets Cartoon examines a solution.
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