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Popular Science: Wolfram on Big Data

I’m a big fan on Stephen Wolfram and his efforts in building Mathematica and pushing forward his approach to scientific discovery, A New Kind of Science.  In a recent post, Popular Science editor Mark Jannot talks to Wolfram about big data, human understanding, and the origin of the universe. Here’s just on back-and-forth between Jannot

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Data Science and Winemaking

David Smith is an author, blogger and R evangelist for Revolution Analytics, where he serves as VP of Marketing, and he blogs daily at blog.revolutionanalytics.com.  This weekend, he posted an article about the use of data science in the winemaking business (yes, data science is getting to be everywhere!…) The article is about Palmaz Vineyards,

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O’Reilly’s List of the World’s Most Powerful Data Scientists

I came across this list through Bob Gourley‘s post on sys-con.com.  Bob references a Forbes pictorial of Tim O’Reilly’s list of the world’s 7 most powerful data scientists.  O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, where his company publishes plenty of technical resources, and hosts the fast growing Strata conferences. Bob gives a

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Internet Evolution: Interview with Moneyball’s Lewis and Beane

Here’s a neat little interview conducted by Internet Evolution’s Todd Watson of Michael Lewis and Billy Beane.  Watson was attending the Information OnDemand event this past month, where one of the key themes of the event was the idea of putting business analytics into practice to help improve business outcomes.  Watson felt that Beane did a

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Popular Science: Turning Raw Data into Useable Knowledge

Here’s a thought provoking post from Popular Science about how we need to think in dealing with the upcoming ocean of data.   Below is one of the interesting segments from the post, as provided by Bill Anderson of the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin and associate editor of the CODATA

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Upcoming Data Science Conferences

Looking ahead, there are a number of interesting upcoming conferences within the “big data” and “data science” fields, so I thought I’d list a few in this post. First, Strata is probably one of the biggest and fastest growing conferences within the field, and they’ll be holding their next conference in Santa Clara, CA, starting

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Nerd Pride Friday: Triumph of the Nerds

This Friday, I thought I’d highlight one of my favorite and nerdiest documentaries of the technology industry.  Given the presence of the late Steve Jobs in the media lately – his loss to cancer, the new Walter Issaccon biography, and Apple’s re-creation of personal computing – I thought it would be nice to reflect upon

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IBM Presentation at IOD

On the website Enterprise Irregulars, Evangelos Simoudis wrote a post on his talk at the recent Information On Demand conference in Las Vegas.  Simoudis mentions that today what is generally referred to by “big data” means data that is large in size, semi-structured or unstructured in form, and real-time or near real-time in the way it

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WSJ: Profile of 1010Data

The Wall Street Journal has a profile of 1010data, as part of their ongoing series of successful companies in the big data space.  According to the WSJ profile, the New York-based company’s customers pay a subscription and hand their data over to the company, which gives it back to them in a format that’s nearly

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Kaggle Raises $11M for Data Science Spec Work

It’s been common practice within the graphic arts world to have competitions for logo design – companies put out a bid for a logo, and get multiple bids with examples in order to win the work.  It appears that this model is reaching the analytics development world… It was announced today by VentureBeat that Kaggle

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