September 6, 2015

Data Science Association Announcements

Ten (10) Minute Data Scientist Online Survey

The Data Science Association (DSA) and Google is interested in learning more about your experience with tools and training. Click on the link below to take a 10-minute survey for data scientists. Your individual responses are anonymous and the data will only be seen by Google and DSA researchers. We will share aggregate results back to the DSA community once analysis is complete!

Take the 10 minute Data Scientist Online Survey here.

Machine Learning Symposium

Thank you for making the Machine Learning Symposium a great success. A special thank you to our sponsors Cloudera and Galvanize. Videos and slide-decks available here.

Machine Learning Contest

There is still time to form a team to compete or become a sponsor in the global Machine Learning Contest (Award Ceremony December 5, 2015). Contestants register here. Sponsors register here. Contest overview here.

We are seeking volunteers to help organize the contest - meet great people, expand your professional network and get special inside access to the latest machine learning and mobile app techniques. Contact us here.

Events:

Event: 10th Scientific Meeting of Classification and Data Analysis Group - Cagliari - October 8-10, 2015.

New Books from DSA Store:

• Practical Data Science with R
• R Graphics Cookbook

New DSA Videos:

• Brains, Sex, and Machine Learning
• Building Brains to Understand the World's Data

New DSA Resources:

• Machine Learning & Business Value by Kush Patel
• Using Machine Learning to Find Hackers and Malware by Sam Triolo
• Data Science in Action by Kamal Maheshwar
• Statistical Interpretation of Inherently Structured Data by Michelle Archuleta
• Sankey Path Analysis of Web Button Clicks and Page Views by Nancy Abramson
• Machine Learning Applications in the Real World by Michael Walker

Data Science News Articles

• Deep Neural Networks: A Getting Started Tutorial
• Naive Bayes and Logistic Regression
• 70 Free Data Repositories
• Fast Threshold Clustering Algorithm (FTCA)

Featured Data Science Blogs

We urge you to start your own Personal Data Science Blog. Great way to share ideas, network and demonstrate your data science acumen.

The following are featured DSA blog posts:

• Google Car and The Fourth Bubble in the Data Science Venn Diagram
• Apache Accumulo: NoSQL Secure Database

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