March 2, 2014
Data Science Association Announcements
Event: NIST Data Science Symposium - March 4-5 2014. Data science is now recognized as a highly-critical growth area with impact across many sectors including science, government, finance, health care, manufacturing, advertising, retail, and others. NIST is forming a program focused on driving advancements in data science through system benchmarking and rigorous measurement science. See Agenda.
Event: Data Science Association Data Science Forum & Vail Ski Retreat - April 11-13 2014. The date has been set, so save the date! Registration and presenter details will be coming soon.
New Data Science Books from DSA Store:
- Probability Theory
- Elements of Information Theory
- Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
- Pattern Classification
New DSA Videos:
- Engineering Data Analysis with R and ggplot
- Theory of Baum-Welch Algorithm and Hidden Markov Models
- Tree Ensembles - Advances In Gradient Boosting: Power of Post-Processing
- Data Visualization in Sports
- Predictive Sports Betting
- Basketball Analytics 2013
New DSA Resources:
- Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning
- Elements of Statistical Learning - Data Mining, Inference and Prediction
- Druid - Real-time Analytical Data Store
- Outlier Detection - Applications and Techniques
- Mining the Web to Predict Future Events
- Baum–Welch Algorithm for Estimating a Hidden Markov Model
- Coordinate - Probabilistic Forecasting of Presence and Availability
- An Empirical Comparison of Voting Classification Algorithms: Bagging, Boosting and Variants
Data Science News Articles
- Varonis Systems Shares Double in Debut
- Data Analysis: The Hard Parts
- Moore's Law: how long will it last?
- Welcome to Algorithmic Prison
- How to Get a Job at Google
- NBA D-League Wearable Analytic Devices to Track In-game Performance
- 2013 Recap: Sports Analytics
- Anatomy of wearables: our bodies covered head-to-toe in tech
- Creating the God Globe
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:
- The Fourth Bubble in the Data Science Venn Diagram: Social Sciences
- HBase 0.98.0 New Release
- q - Text as a Database
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