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Class DataScientist{}

This class definition may not fly in any programming language I know However, if you liked this, you will love this presentation – What is a Data Scientist?

Posted in Analytics, Big Data, Data Journalism, Data Scientists, Information Discovery, Machine Learning

Meetup As a Trend Indicator

I never really thought of MeetUps as a trend indicator. It suddenly dawned on me that it can be the leading indicator of activities in different areas. Here is an example. I got a notification email from meetup.com on a

Posted in Big Data, Data Scientists, Database Technology, Early Signals, Ecosystems, Information Discovery

LinkLog: Data Visualization Success Hinges on Solid Storytelling Skills

This blog, btw, was not written by me (except this para). I wanted to see what happens when you rescoop an article to your blog. Now I know. It is a story worth reading. So to do a successful visualization

Posted in Analytics, Data Journalism, Data Scientists, Visualization

Social Media Analytics, Computational Journalism, Cognitive Mapping

Social media analytics will be next big wave Companies are creating, harvesting and analysing data to find more insights about their customers and the profitability of their businesses. McDonalds apparently took 45 years to sell 100 billion burgers. Apple took

Posted in Analytics, Cognitive Mapping, Data Scientists, Ideas

Generating Value from Data

Education hasn’t kept up with development in Big Data according to Deng. “We are facing a huge deficit in people to not only handle big data, but more importantly to have the knowledge and skills to generate value from data

Posted in Data Scientists, Impact, teaching

Daily Links May 20, 2011kill

Source: Check page alerts, InfoMinder, Infostreams and Twitter Stream Top 75 College Education Tweets and Twitter Accounts  via @onlinecourse Unemployed, educated, and indebted, more Millennials seeking work beyond U.S via @onlinecourse Hacker Monthly  Hacker Monthly – checkout the special issue on

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Posted in Data Scientists, Job Trends, startups, twitter

Linklog: Big Data

It’s been said that 90 percent of the data that exists today was created in the last two years. That staggering “hockey-stick” growth presents challenges that must be met if we are to gain valuable insight from that data. If

Posted in Data Scientists, Ideas

Data Applications and Infrastructure at LinkedIn

Stumbled on this great presentation from LinkedIn. Here are some really great insights: Isolated infrastructure team is really a bad solution Building a multi-TB lookup infrastructure is really, really  hard work, Solution: Build this structure in Hadoop

Posted in Data Scientists, Ideas, Trends

The duties of a Data Scientist

The duties of the Data Scientist will include, but not be limited to: Designing and building new processes for large and complex data sets Thinking strategically about uses of data and how that interacts with data design Designing and implementing

Posted in Data Scientists, Trends
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