March 8, 2015

Data Science Association Announcements

The Data Science Association and Big Data in Denver seek members for the Machine Learning Contest Executive Committee. Members will help run the contest, plan the Award Ceremony and participate in judging the submitted apps. You will get inside knowledge on the latest machine learning techniques and mobile app development. Please click here and send us a message if interested (may participate from any location virtually).

The Machine Learning Contest is on and contestants may still register to compete @ http://bit.ly/1zYp9dd.

Events:

Event: Dan's Machine Learning Class on Linux  - Palo Alto - March 8, 2015.

Event: Python Data Analytics: Class Demo Day - New York City - March 9, 2015.

Event: Relational to Graph: A Worked Example - London - March 10, 2015.

Event: Jonathan Mugan on Deep Learning - Austin, TX - March 11, 2015.

Event: Simplifying the Lambda Architecture - New York City - March 12, 2015.

Event: Data Storage Trends and Architectures - Rock Bottom Brew in Denver - April 15, 2015

New Books from DSA Store:

• Data-Driven Security: Analysis, Visualization and Dashboards
• The Art of R Programming: A Tour of Statistical Software Design
• Fast Data Processing with Spark

New DSA Videos:

• New Directions for Spark in 2015 - Matei Zaharia
• Data Science: Where are We Going? - Dr. DJ Patil
• Big Data Lessons from Our Cybernetic Past - Eden Medina

New DSA Resources:

• Intriguing Properties of Neural Networks
• Algorithm Selection by Rational Metareasoning as a Model of Human Strategy Selection
• Quantum Nanophotonic Systems
• The Theory of Poker Book - Probabilistic Logic

Data Science News Articles

• The Eight Most Common Big Data Myths
• Poor ROI for Most Big Data Projects Slows Data Gold Rush
• Why Google is Learning about Goats
• Autonomous Google Car May Never Happen - Depends on Extensive & Periodically Revised Mapping
• How Musical Taste Correlates with SAT Scores
• Robots vs. Ebola?
• Text Mining and Election Analytics in Massachusetts

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:

• Sensors Everywhere and Data Science Changes the World
• Perils of a Chief Data Scientist at the National Government Level
• Data Visualization: A Day in the Life of Worldreader.org
• Stream-lib: Stream Summarizer and Cardinality Estimator

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