New tool lets you visualize just about anything in 5 minutes (maybe less) Derrick Harris, gigaom.com There’s a new web tool called Raw that makes it really easy to do some advanced visualizations on data in just a few minutes. (Hat tip to Nathan Yau of FlowingData for pointing it out.) The way it works … Continue reading Raw: advanced data visualization via cut and paste
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Kaggle now has 100K data scientists, but what’s a data scientist? — Tech News and Analysis. Related articles Kaggle now has 100K data scientists, but what's a data scientist? (shankernaik.wordpress.com) 10 "R" Packages Every Data Scientist & Analyst Should Be Aware Of (starbridgepartners.com) New Programs Emerge to Train Big Data Scientists (datacenterknowledge.com) Gawking at the … Continue reading Kaggle now has 100K data scientists, but what’s a data scientist? — Tech News and Analysis
The Data Doc: Meet the MD who wants to bring custom healthcare to the masses Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com Here’s a phrase I’ve never heard during a doctor’s visit: “We need your data, girl!” I was at MDRevolution’s La Jolla, Calif., office about a month ago, sitting in on a consultation as a patient huffed … Continue reading MDRevolution: custom healthcare for the masses
Samuel Arbesman, wired.com Our species can?t seem to escape big data. We have more data inputs, storage, and computing resources than ever, so Homo sapiens naturally does what it has always done when given new tools: it goes even bigger, higher, and bolder. We did it in… Samuel Arbesman http://flip.it/is0gV http://flip.it/57gRu Stop Hyping Big Data … Continue reading Stop Hyping Big Data and Start Paying Attention to ‘Long Data’
The Personal Analytics of My Life stephenwolfram.com One day I’m sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves. But because I’ve been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago. I actually assumed lots of other people were doing it too… http://flip.it/RrQhl Related articles Big (personal) … Continue reading The Personal Analytics of My Life
New big data firm to pioneer topological data analysis Posted by John Burn-Murdoch, guardian.co.uk Stanford University project goes commercial following groundbreaking research into cancer therapy and counter-terrorism strategy • More from the Guardian on big data • More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian A US big data… RT @guardianscience: New big data … Continue reading New big data firm to pioneer topological data
By STEVE LOHR, nytimes.com Business experts and recent research predict that machine-generated sensor data will become a larger and larger portion of all data produced. That is opening up a huge opportunity for Big Data technology beyond the consumer Internet. RT @nytimesbits: Big Data: Rise of the Machines http://flip.it/X0O7J http://flip.it/82cR0 Bits Blog: Big Data: Rise … Continue reading Why big data is about mining real world behavior
Bits Blog: Jeff Hawkins Develops a Brainy Big Data Company By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com Jeff Hawkins got rich and famous as the brains behind Palm, an early power in mobile data. He has also developed a new model of how we think, which will now be used, he says, to revolutionize the data analysis … Continue reading Jeff Dawkins: Big data applied via cognitive science
Big Data: You Have No Idea How Much It Will Change Your Life Juan Enriquez, inc.com Futurist Juan Enriquez on the mind-blowing changes that Big Data is about to unleash on your business, your health, and life in general. Most modern humans are now attempting to cram more data into their heads in a single … Continue reading Big data will rewire your brain
Big Data News of the Week: Sexy and Social Data Scientists Gil Press, forbes.com In a week when tech vendors traditionally go on a news hiatus, the people who actually do big data came to the fore. InformationWeek reported on the gathering of nearly three dozen data scientists from academia and… http://flpbd.it/qnGXj Related articles Big … Continue reading Big Data News of the Week: Sexy and Social Data Scientists
How Big Data Is Improving Healthcare Related articles Big Data To Become Powerful Driver Of IT Spending - Gartner (misco.co.uk) MIT Partners with hack/reduce to Bring Big Data to Healthcare (bostinno.com) New Report Shows How to Turn Big Data into Big Bucks (domo.com) Big Data Myths Persist (informationweek.com) Is Healthcare Big Data Ready For Prime … Continue reading How Big Data Is Improving Healthcare
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via http://www.hamilton.edu In a professional world that is evolving into only data points liberal arts graduates have the ability to synthesize and offer solutions, add opinion and context to data. Related articles IE. Reveal Agenda for the Ground-breaking Big Data Innovation Summit (prweb.com) Kauffman Foundation Grant to Olin College Creates Award Program Highlighting Student Contributions … Continue reading Hamilton College GOLD Summit Digs into Digital
Good article on ways that companies such as JetBlue can use text analytics to analyze thousands of emails for business intelligence How Text Analytics Drive Customer Insight - Business_intelligence - Analytics - Informationweek. Related articles By 2015, more than 30 percent of analytics projects will deliver insights based on structured and unstructured data (ctovision.com) LogiXML … Continue reading How Text Analytics Drive Customer Insight: a case from a Jet Blue disaster
Great article on Franco Moretti, a Stanford English professor, is championing computational linguistics, data mining, computer modeling, and network theory to take a data-centric approach to novels, which he graphs, maps, and charts. Using IBM’s Visual Communications Lab he is turning books into a series of word clouds. He is also identifying the best titles and discovered a … Continue reading Moretti: Applying Quantitative Analysis to Classic Lit
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