April 27, 2014

Data Science Association Announcements

Event: Google GovDev Challenge - Denver Colorado - May 17/18. 24 hour codathon style event where teams will compete to build solutions for government agencies from Wyoming and Colorado. There will be at least four challenges each with a grand prize of $5000.

Event: Deep Learning, Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing - Boulder Colorado - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - 6:00pm MDT.

Featured Science Books from DSA Store:

• Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics
• Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective
• Data Mining for Service

New DSA Videos:

• Scaling HBase (nosql store) to Handle Massive Loads at Pinterest
• Real World Applications with Spring Data Neo4j
• Fraud Detection in Real-Time with Graphs
• 5 Minute REST API with csvkit & Couch

New DSA Resources:

• Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition
• Meta-control of an Optimization Algorithm
• Reversible Space Equals Deterministic Space
• Simultaneous Object Detection, Tracking, and Event Recognition
• Asimovian Adaptive Agents
• Autonomous Technology and the Greater Human Good

Data Science News Articles

• If a Bubble Bursts in Palo Alto, Does It Make a Sound?
• An Apple a Day and Other Myths
• The Science in Finding a Data Scientist
• Big Data is the new Artificial Intelligence
• AI Gets Groove Back
• 9 Free Books for Learning Data Mining & Data Analysis
• Silicon Valley's Youth Problem

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:

• Alternatives to Spark for In-Memory Distributed Computing
• Data Scientists Draw Pictures and Tell Short Stories
• Decision Trees Library

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