Dec 24

If you’re in to machine learning and data mining, then Waffles might be just what you need. Waffles is a collection of command line tools for machine learning and data mining.

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Nov 28

Elegant Coding recommends 11 equations any computer science geek should know. How many of them do you know?

Nov 18

Cloudera has set up a page that links to lots of presentations from Hadoop World.

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Nov 18

JP Morgan Chase and others reiterated “We’re hiring” at the recent Hadoop World Conference. This Information Week article recaps just how hot a commodity a Hadoop engineer is.

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Nov 17

Roger Craig holds the Jeopardy record for single game money winnings. How did he do it? Well part of his success comes from an app he built to help him train.


Roger Craig – Knowledge Tracking from Steven Dean on Vimeo.


And here’s a TheNextWeb article with more info.

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Nov 15




Also check out the VentureBeat article

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Nov 09

Here’s a recap from a Last.fm intern about some of the things learned on the job dealing with lots of data.

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Nov 05

It’s not surprising but, the CIA is mining the full stream of Twitter and Facebook messages from a special facility they’ve set up in Virginia. Read the details.

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Nov 05

Tim O’Reilly has created a list for Forbes of the 7 most powerful data scientists…

  1. Eric Schmidt
  2. Jeff Hammerbacher, DJ Patil
  3. Sebastian Thrun, Peter Norvig
  4. Elizabeth Warren
  5. Todd Park
  6. Alex “Sandy” Pentland
  7. Hod Lipson, Michael Schmidt
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Nov 04

We’ve written about Kaggle before, but here’s a new post from the New York Times about the site and some new funding they’ve received.

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