Daily Big Data Feed – Oct 5, 2012
Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.
- Engineering Practices in Data Science | no free hunch
- Trifacta Scores $4.3M In Funding To Help Close The Big Data Talent Gap
- Why Big Data matters: The experts weigh in | TechRepublic
- A Data Scientist View of the World, or, the World is Your Petri Dish …
- Building For The Enterprise — The Zero Overhead Principle
- NASA Issues Big Data Challenge
- 5 ways big data is transforming everyday life
- Columbia Data Science course, week 5: GetGlue, time series …
Data Scientists (n.): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. (more)
Sacramento Bee Trifacta’s technology addresses data productivity problems in a range of use cases in Business Intelligence and Data Science. “Every day we see customers analyzing messy data from many different data sources in Tableau,” noted Chris Stolte, Chief … (more)
To sort through the massive hype around Big Data, we’ve got a killer panel of experts. See the live-streamed event on Thursday, Oct. 4 at 4:30pm. (more)
In developing the EMC Data Science & Big Data Analytics course, we collaborated with the Greenplum Data Scientist team. One member of that team, Kaushik … (more)
TechCrunch Editor’s note: DJ Patil is a data scientist in residence at Greylock Partners. You can follow him on Twitter. The enterprise is back. We’re seeing a resurgence of companies to help support everyday work tasks. Workday is replacing stodgy-feeling HR … (more)
InformationWeek The Big Data Challenge invites the public to participate in a series of contests aimed at identifying ways to analyze and share large amounts of data across government, using information sets drawn from the health, energy, and earth science fields. The … (more)
GigaOM In photojournalist Rick Smolan’s latest book, The Human Face of Big Data, he shares more than 100 stories revealing the concrete, mind-blowingly powerful ways big data is changing how we consume energy, receive healthcare, monitor the environment and … (more)
By Cathy O’Neil, mathbabe
I was happy to be giving Rachel Schutt’s Columbia Data Science course this week, where I discussed time series, financial modeling, and ethics. I blogged previous classes here. The first few minutes of class were for a case study with … (more)