January 11, 2015
Data Science Association Announcements
Machine Learning Ski Hackathon - February 21 - 28, 2015
The Data Science Association and Big Data in Denver are holding a global Machine Learning Hackathon from February 21 - 28, 2015. The goal is to demonstrate how data science and engineering can improve decisions and quality of life to the public. See site: http://hackski.com.
Contestants will compete to create the best mobile phone app and/or website to be made free to the public to make best possible ski venue and rout/time decision to get to the ski slopes. Any variety of data sources and data science techniques may be used. Contest is open and free to any and all contestants – regardless of geographic location.
Date: February 21 – 28, 2015
Place: Global – Virtual
Contestant Requirements: Free and open to all
Party / Award Ceremony: Saturday February 28, 2015 at Level3 in Colorado (winners do not need to attend physically)
Prizes: 1st Prize USD $10,000 - 2nd Prize USD $ 4,000 - 3rd Prize USD $ 2,000
Contestant Registration @ http://bit.ly/1zYp9dd
Sponsor Registration @ http://bit.ly/1IxjXll
Events
Event: Top 20 Data Quality Solutions & Random Walks for Scale Space Theory - CU Denver - January 21, 2015.
Event: Anatomy of an In-Memory Data Fabric - Galvanize Denver Colorado - January 14, 2015.
Event: What Database Best-Fits Your Project? NoSQL or SQL RDBMS or DBaaS Services? - New York City - January 20, 2015.
Event: Big Data & CEM Summit Indonesia 2015 - Ritz-Carlton Jakarta, Mega Kuningan - February 4-5, 2015.
New Books from DSA Store:
New DSA Videos:
New DSA Resources:
- Quantum Information Processing Theory
- Quantum Challenge in Concept Theory and Natural Language Processing
- Quantum Mechanics Meets Cognitive Science
- Processing Information in Quantum Decision Theory
- Inferring Causal Structure - a Quantum Advantage
- Why Your Data Won’t Mix - Semantic Heterogeneity
Data Science News Articles
- The Dangers of Relying Too Much on Data
- Google's Secretive DeepMind Startup Unveils a "Neural Turing Machine"
- Jeff Hawkins on the Limitations of Artificial Neural Networks
- Google Flu Trends Gets New Engine
- Machine Unlearning: The Value of Imperfect Models
- Reminder from Lockheed Martin that Big Data can be a Slow Process
- Embracing Uncertainty – Probabilistic Inference - Machine Learning
- RFM Segmentation in R, Pandas, Spark
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:
- Six Types of Data; Are You Still Stuck on the First Two?
- Data Veracity vs. Data Quality
- Bubbles: Python ETL Framework
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