December 8, 2013
Data Science Association Announcements
Join us Tuesday December 10 @6:00pm MDT for Sequencing the Human Genome & Personalized Medicine & Bioinformatics at the University of Colorado School of Public Health. NOTE: For folks unable to attend in person register and we will email you a livestream link 2 hours prior to event. Register @ http://bit.ly/1hXEQxR
The DSA is considering a Data Science Forum & Vail Ski Retreat for March, 2014.
Please take 30 seconds to log-in and take the Survey to help us determine level of interest. Rate your interest in attending a three (3) day Data Science Forum and Ski Retreat (Fri. - Sat. - Sun.) in Vail, Colorado in late March 2014. Meetings in morning and night and ski Vail during day. Professional benefits include video recorded presentation and published paper in the Data Science Review. Cost about USD $700 lodging excluding airfare and ski pass. Deductible as a business expense. Log-in to vote @ http://bit.ly/1aLWviG
DSA has a new section called Data Science News that provides links to interesting data science related articles. Please check for new data science news from time to time @ http://bit.ly/1cjjCCd.
DSA also has a new section called Data Science Association in the News that provides links to articles mentioning the DSA. Please check for DSA in the news @ http://bit.ly/18Ni7AY.
LinkedIn DSA Credential: The Data Science Association now has a LinkedIn group for DSA members only. To join the group, first become a member of the Data Science Association (Join DSA @ http://bit.ly/1dZ9MMC), and then apply to enter the LinkedIn group over on LinkedIn by supplying your username or e-mail there in your request. See: http://linkd.in/1iNfPpG.
Data Science News Articles
- Data scientists needed: Why this career is exploding right now
- Visualizing Neural Networks in R
- New Hadoop Products
- Book: Professional Hadoop Solutions
- Amazon Kinesis - Real-Time Processing of Streaming Big Data
- Google's Computers Outwit Humans
- Facebook Open Sources SQL-on-Hadoop Engine
- In-memory Computing Gaining Momentum
- Using electronic medical records to correlate genes with illnesses
- FDA orders genetic testing service 23andMe to halt selling test
- When algorithms grow accustomed to your face
- Using computers to generate creativity
- New Google patent and a Turing test for social media
Featured Data Science Blogs
We urge you to start your own personal data science blog @ http://bit.ly/1dZ9bKI. Great way to share ideas, network and demonstrate your data science acumen.
The following are featured DSA blog posts:
- Weather Company New Forecasting Platform
- Using AWS to Build a Graph-Based Product Recommendation System
- LinkedIn DSA Credential
- SC13 wrap-up: Exotic computing technologies
- GPU is common ground between HPC and Hadoop
- Game changer for HPC: IBM and NVidia novel architecture
- New partnership launches to harness potential of data scientists and big data
- How to Interview a Data Scientist
- Open Data Could Be Worth $5.4 Trillion Annually
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Data Science Association in the News
Data Science Association in the News provides links to articles mentioning the DSA. Check for DSA in the news from time to time @ http://bit.ly/18Ni7AY.
The following are featured DSA in the news articles:
- Columbia University Blog by Dr. Kayur Patel on Data Science Ethics
- Computer World: Big Data Blues: Dangers of Data Mining
- Information Week: 5 Data Science Sins To Beware
- Information Week: Data Scientists Create Code Of Professional Conduct
- Data Informed: An Argument for a Data Science Code of Professional Conduct
- Fierce Big Data: Data Scientists Create Code Of Professional Conduct
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