February 2, 2014
Data Science Association Announcements
The Data Science Association now has 2,319 members! Network, make new friends and share ideas.
Event: Druid Data Ingest and Text Mining with Python - Wed. Feb. 26 @ 6:00pm MST - Register for In-person or Livestreaming @http://bit.ly/1jypwaW
The DSA is considering a Data Science Forum & Vail Ski Retreat for March, 2014. Please spend 30 seconds to take the Survey to help us determine level of interest @http://bit.ly/1aLWviG.
New Data Science Books from DSA Store:
- Data Mining with R: Learning with Case Studies
- The Art of R Programming: A Tour of Statistical Software Design
- R Graphics Cookbook
New DSA Videos:
- Real-time Analytics using Cassandra, Spark and Shark
- A Full-Featured Enterprise Big Data Analytics Solution
- Real-Time Big Data Analytics with Storm
- Collective Intelligence for Data Center Operations Management
New DSA Resources:
- Improving Within-Network Classification with Local Attributes
- Linking Network Structure and Diffusion through Stochastic Dominance
- Random-Walk Computation of Similarities between Nodes of a Graph with Application to Collaborative Recommendation
- A Link Mining Algorithm for Earnings Forecast and Trading
- Scientific Method in Practice - Reproducibility in the Computational Sciences
- Machine Learning for Display Advertising Tutorial
- Mixing Probabilities, Priors and Kernels via Entropy Pooling
- Predictive Modeling with Social Networks Tutorial
- Classification in Networked Data
- Machine Learning and Algorithmic Trading In Fixed Income Markets
- Machine Learning for Portolio Optimization: A Novel Algorithmic Trading Framework
- PlusCal Algorithm Language
- Causal Entropic Forces
- Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
- Markov Chains Work Force Planning Models
- Quantifying Trading Behavior in Financial Markets Using Google Trends
- Model Selection Using Database Characteristics: Developing a Classification Tree for Longitudinal Incidence Data
Data Science News Articles
- Why Hadoop Only Solves a Third of the Growing Pains for Big Data
- Meet the Data Scientist: Josh Wills
- Variety's The Spice Of Life – And Bane Of Big Data
- Is "Diversity" In Science Necessary? Legal?
- Robots to Replace Troops on the Battlefield
- Carts and Horses, Causes and Effects
- One is the Loneliest Number in Data Analytics
- Impediments to the Rise of Big Data
- Walmart and Walgreens Offer Free Prescription to Collect Patient Data
- Columbia Professor Uses Statistics and Data Science to Solve Global Water Resource Problems
- In 1964 Isaac Asimov Makes Predictions for 2014
- You don’t know how to hire a REAL Data Scientist!
- Marketing Predictions 2014
- Examples of How Data Science Enables a New Way of Thinking for Corporate IT
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:
- Time to Retire the Term "Full Stack Developer"
- Predicting the Super Bowl
- Call for Papers: Legal and Ethical Issues in Predictive Data
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