November 16, 2014

Data Science Association Announcements

Event: Finals - 2014 TEXATA Big Data Analytics World Championships - Online - November 22-23, 2014.

Event: LineageDB Architecture for Big Data Analytics & Data Quality - CU Boulder - December 3, 2014.

Featured Books from DSA Store:

• Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
• A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
• Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

New DSA Videos:

• Support Vector Machines
• Watching Your Cassandra Cluster Melt
• Improving Mainframe Performance with Hadoop

New DSA Resources:

• Introductory Lectures on Convex Optimization - Nesterov
• Introduction to Nonparametric Estimation - Tsybakov
• Machine Learning with Operational Costs
• Algorithms for Discovery of Multiple Markov Boundaries
• Ranking Forests

Data Science News Articles

• Cloud Crisis: What if AWS Runs Out of Cash?
• Shift from Predictive to Prescriptive Analytics
• Assimov on Creativity
• Big Data is Future of Europe's Economy
• 5 Big Data Trends Government IT Can't Ignore
• Half of UK firms Lack Analytics Experience
• Right to Privacy in a Big Data World
• Congratulations Hadoop, You Made It - Now Disappear

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:

• Neuromorphic vs. Neural Net
• Tika - Data Integration / Content Analysis Tool
• FrameNet Project - Frame Semantics

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