About Gregory Piatetsky

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, PhD, is the President of KDnuggets, and a top influencer in Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science. He is a co-founder of KDD, the leading research conference on Data Mining and Data Science, and co-founder and past chair of ACM SIGKDD. He was a Chief Scientist at two startups. Here is Gregory's bio . Follow Gregory on Twitter: @kdnuggets or LinkedIn.

Gregory Piatetsky Posts (400)

• Cartoon: Data Scientist Valentine Day Prediction - 13 Feb 2014
  
  New KDnuggets cartoon looks at a Data Scientist Valentine's Day prediction.
• 7 Steps for Learning Data Mining and Data Science - 28 Nov 2013
  
  [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.
• Top Research Conferences in Data Mining, Data Science - 25 Nov 2013
  
  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.
• KDnuggets Exclusive: Interview with Rayid Ghani, Chief Scientist Obama 2012 Campaign - 19 Nov 2013
  
  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.
• Cartoon: Thanksgiving, Big Data, and Turkey Data Science - 06 Nov 2013
  
  To mark the the upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday, KDnuggets Cartoon imagines Big Data and Turkey Data Science.
• KDnuggets Cartoon looks at IRS, Big Data, and Taxes - 23 Oct 2013
  
  It is tax paying season! This KDnuggets cartoon uses Big Data to help reduce the pain of paying taxes.
• Is Data Science The End of Statistics? A Discussion - 23 Oct 2013
  
  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?
• Coursera Andrew Ng on Online Revolution: Education for Everyone - 15 Aug 2013
  
  My report on KDD-2013 Keynote talk by Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng, on Coursera far-reaching experiment in education, which collected more educational data in one year than all the universities in the history of mankind. Andrew Ng believes that great education should not be only for the privileged but should be a fundamental human right.
• Data Scientist Valentine’s Day Adjustment - 15 Feb 2013
  
  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.
• Analytics Education Boom – Trends and Overview - 15 Feb 2013
  
  We review the state of Data analytics, Data Mining, and Data Science education in the USA and online. The US Education MS Analytics Degree boom started in 2012, but how will it compete with free online education?