March 1, 2015
Data Science Association Announcements
Thank you to everyone who participated Saturday night at the Machine Learning Contest Kick-off and Data Science Presentations event. Video will be posted soon. View presentation slide decks @ http://www.datascienceassn.org/resources.
The Machine Learning Contest is on and contestants may still register to compete @ http://bit.ly/1zYp9dd. Stay tuned for information on the Award Ceremony scheduled for December 5, 2015.
View Strata 2015 video presentations @ http://www.datascienceassn.org/resources.
Events:
Event: Designing Catastrophic Earthquake Bond and Predicting its Credit Spread - San Francisco - March 3, 2015.
Event: Python Data Analytics: Class Demo Day - New York City - March 9, 2015.
Event: Relational to Graph: A Worked Example - London - March 10, 2015.
New Books from DSA Store:
- Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight
- Doing Data Science: Straight Talk from the Frontline
- Data Scientist: The Definitive Guide to Becoming a Data Scientist
New DSA Videos:
- Cassandra Data Modeling - Practical Considerations @ Netflix
- Using Cassandra to Support Crisis Informatics Research
- 5 Minute REST API with csvkit & CouchDB
New DSA Resources:
- Two-Stream Convolutional Networks for Action Recognition in Videos
- The SQL++ Unifying Semi-structured Query Language, and an Expressiveness Benchmark of SQL-on-Hadoop, NoSQL and NewSQL Databases
- The Bayesian Case Model - A Generative Approach for Case-Based Reasoning and Prototype Classification
- Do Convnets Learn Correspondence?
Data Science News Articles
- How Ford Uses Data Science
- Hiring and Retaining Analytic Rock Stars
- Guide to Getting Started with Data Science and Python
- The Dark Market for Personal Data
- Facebook’s Model Users
- Affective Privacy and Surveillance
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:
- Meet the New Chief Data Scientist of the United States Government
- State of the Stream 2015Q1
- Understanding the Now - The Role of Data in Adaptive Organizations
- Kafka 0.8.2.0 New Release
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