Most Innovative Countries - Perception vs. Reality
On 30 Jun, 2014 By Michael.Walker 0 Comments
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Data Science Summer Reading List 2014
On 28 Jun, 2014 By Michael.Walker 1 Comments
Fooled by Twitter Data
On 19 Jun, 2014 By Michael.Walker 0 Comments
Data scientists must always remember that data sets are not objective - they are selected, collected, filtered, structured and analyzed by human design. Naked and hidden biases in selecting, collecting, structuring and analyzing data present serious risks.
Integrating Kafka and Storm: Kafka - Storm Starter
On 16 Jun, 2014 By Michael.Walker 0 Comments
Code examples that show to integrate Apache Kafka 0.8+ with Apache Storm 0.9+, while using Apache Avro as the data serialization format.
Data Scientists Sometimes Fool Themselves
On 12 Jun, 2014 By Michael.Walker 0 Comments
The easiest person in the world to fool is yourself. Data scientists sometimes fool themselves - in matters trivial and important. Thus, I strongly suggest that we acknowledge real or subconscious biases in ourselves, the data, the analysis and group think. It is prudent for data science teams to have both internal and external checks and balances to expose potential biases and better understand objective reality.
Data Science Stack Exchange
On 9 Jun, 2014 By Michael.Walker 0 Comments
The Data Science Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for data science professionals.
Descriptive Predictive Prescriptive Analytics
On 4 Jun, 2014 By Michael.Walker 0 Comments
The goal of Data Analytics (big and small) is to get actionable insights resulting in smarter decisions and better business outcomes. How you architect business technologies and design data analytics processes to get valuable, actionable insights varies.
Data Scientists by Education 2014
On 3 Jun, 2014 By Michael.Walker 0 Comments
According to recent survey by Burtch Works.
NoSQL & NewSQL Database Adoption 2014
On 29 May, 2014 By Michael.Walker 0 Comments
Bad Data Science and Woody Allen
On 23 May, 2014 By Michael.Walker 0 Comments
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