Hackathons have become a popular way for developers and data geeks with similar interests to connect and create problem-solving or entrepreneurial applications. But the creative process of locking like-minded professionals in a room to find valuable ways to combine datasets Read More…
To get at the “truth” in our enterprise data, we need to be equipped to ask the right sort of questions. That means the best data science teams will be those that best function as a welcome extension to existing teams, rather than an outside body holding court on enterprise data, argues Matt Asay of 10gen in this opinion piece. Read More…
Findings from health informatics researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College offer reassurance that even though electronic health records (EHRs) tend towards analyzing data on a technical, rather then instinctive level, they almost always offer health professionals the same health insights as manually-kept health records. Read More…
Statistics? Yes. Computer science? Obviously. But for undergraduates exploring data science, the most important concepts to learn are problem-solving, synthesis—correlating one dataset with another—and storytelling. Those are the skills that will best help the next generation of data scientists take Read More…
For companies still hesitant about buying into big data and analytics, 2013 is the year to get off the sidelines or risk being left behind by your competitors. That’s was the opinion expressed by analysts Dan Vesset and Ashish Nadkarni, Read More…
When he assembles a data science team, Scott Nicholson, the chief data scientist at Accretive Health, looks at both the individual and the group dynamic. In a recent presentation, Nicholson talked about the qualities that make a great data science team member and what he looks for in job candidates. Read More…
The war for analytics talent is tough enough. But imagine competing against the likes of Facebook, LinkedIn and Microsoft for qualified candidates. They’re only a handful of the companies currently looking to hire data scientists and other analytics professionals. To Read More…
The new non-profit big data research center Hack/Reduce is hosting its first hackathon at its Cambridge, Mass. location on Saturday, Nov. 17, bringing together approximately 100 budding data scientists to experiment with $1 million worth of cloud-based Hadoop nodes for Read More…
John Myles White, a co-founder of the Data Gotham data scientist event in New York, discusses how real time analytics is pushing the frontiers of data science, and what data professionals from Wall Street, Madison Avenue and City Hall can gain from the gathering. Read More…
Enterprise has gone wild for Hadoop’s storage and batch processing capabilities, but what’s the point if nobody can access the technology easily? That’s the quandary Datameer aims to address with its newest product launch, creating individual and small workgroup versions Read More…
