Prediction – the other dismal science?
An insightful person once said, “Prediction is like driving your car forward by looking only at the rearview mirror!”. If the road is dead-straight, you are good . . ...
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The misanthrope’s vain struggle with big data
Thousands of companies today declare they plan to invest in big data, sometimes with legitimate reasons. They want to hire scientists, invest in infrastructure, revolutio...
Big Data Realization: We are in transition phase
Recently found a post by Ali Syed on topic ; “Europeans unconvinced by big data in general“.This study was conducted for the Vodafone Institute for Society...
5 Excel Add Ins Every Data Scientist Should Install
No matter what you do, you can’t avoid excel. So, may as well dive into it & tame the beast. Here are 5 excel Add Ins that every data scientist should install. P...
Introduction to metadata
Metadata is organised information that describes, locates or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve information. Metadata is all around us, it started as catalogue cards i...
10 Great Healthcare Data Sets
Healthcare will be one of the biggest beneficiaries of big data & analytics. Here are 10 great data sets to start playing around with & improve your healthcare da...
List of top companies hiring data scientist in 2016
There are lots of undergraduates are eager to do an internship in the data scientist post in a top companies. But unfortunately, they won’t provide “Data sci...
50 big data companies that collectively received $9 billion in funding
The following 50 companies received each between $77 MM and $1,200 MM in funding, for a grand total of nearly $9 billion when aggregated. We scraped Yahoo Finance, press ...
Fuzzy Matching Algorithms To Help Data Scientists Match Similar Data
A common scenario for data scientists is the marketing, operations or business groups give you two sets of similar data with different variables & asks the analytics ...
Big data in ranching and animal husbandry
Another big part of the food supply comes from ranches and farms that raise and slaughter various livestock. While ranching is sometimes bundled with agriculture, I discu...