Monthly Archives: December 2010

What is data science? – O’Reilly Radar

What differentiates data science from statistics is that data science is a holistic approach. We’re increasingly finding data in the wild, and data scientists are involved with gathering data, massaging it into a tractable form, making it tell its story,

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Startup Lessons: The Fallacy of Customer Development

The biggest challenge most web applications face is building a significant path to customers. Rather than going through customer discovery, customer validation, and then tackle customer creation, which can take months, I find it critical to start building and testing

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LinkLog: Why a 1,000-core chip is feasible

the limit on how many cores I can use depends on the application and how much of it I can express in parallel. The 48-core SCC processor could theoretically scale to 1,000 cores, according to Mattson. Credit: Intel It turns

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LinkLog – The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value – Harvard Business Review

A big part of the problem lies with companies themselves, which remain trapped in an outdated approach to value creation that has emerged over the past few decades. They continue to view value creation narrowly, optimizing short-term financial performance in

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LinkLog: The Data Science Venn Diagram

How to read the Data Science Venn Diagram The primary colors of data: hacking skills, math and stats knowledge, and substantive expertise via dataists.com

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What are some of the significant emerging technologies to pay attention to?

What are some of the significant emerging technologies to pay attention to? Here are some answers I added (to my question) 1.Social Web – social networks and social aspects of apps 2. Mobile Apps on Smartphones 3. Games – especially

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The Way We Think About Programming

In the future, in much the same way that algebra was shaken by the discovery of calculus by Newton or Liebnitz, Martin hints to his audience that they have an opportunity to transform everything about the way we think about

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Top Programming Languages

According to Simply Hired, since April 2009, Java jobs increased 52 percent, Perl jobs increased 33 percent, C# jobs increased 52 percent, Objective C jobs increased 60 percent (however, a search for “Objective-C” showed a 207 percent increase in jobs),

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Machine Learning in Python

Milk is a machine learning toolkit in Python. Its focus is on supervised classification with several classifiers available: SVMs (based on libsvm), k-NN, random forests, decision trees. It also performs feature selection. These classifiers can be combined in many ways

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A different kind of knowledge through debates

Does the internet favor dictators or dissenters? Issue1 #86735 We have mapped this YouTube debate as a first step in a long term project to build a comprehensive map of the impact of the web and related technologies on the

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