February 22, 2015

Data Science Association Announcements

The Data Science Association and Big Data in Denver are holding a global Machine Learning Contest from February 28, 2015 to December 5, 2015. Contestant Registration @ http://bit.ly/1zYp9dd

Events:

Event: Machine Learning Contest Kick-off and Data Science Presentations - Level 3 Communications - 1025 Eldorado Blvd, Broomfield, CO - February 28, 2015.

New Books from DSA Store:

• Fast Data Processing with Spark
• Algorithms Unlocked
• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

New DSA Videos:

• Tera-scale Deep Learning
• Deep Learning: Machine Perception and Its Applications
• A CouchDB Replication Endpoint in PHP

New DSA Resources:

• Learning Deep Features for Scene Recognition using Places Database
• LineageDB Architecture for real-time Big Data Analytics - Slides
• Top 20 Data Quality Solutions for Data Science - Slides
• Restricted Boltzmann Machines Modeling Human Choice

Data Science News Articles

• How Data Scientists are Changing the Face of Business Intelligence
• Lies, Damn Lies And The Myth Of Following The Data
• Lingerie Company A/B Tests Create Advantage
• How Game Theory Helped Improve New York City’s High School Application Process
• Big Data Hits The Dirt
• Guide to Understanding Climate Change: The Case for Theory-Guided Data Science
• Detailed Visualization of NBA Shot Selection
• Top 5 Big Data Trends Of 2014

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:

• Why Women Make Great Data Scientists
• Framing Ambiguity, Incentives, and Actions
• Cubes: Online Analytical Processing Framework for Python
• Data Science Job Title Generator

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