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Beth Schultz, Editor in Chief , 6/19/2013
The idea of data-related massively open online courses (MOOCs) has been on my mind a lot lately following our recent look at a handful of such offerings. So when an opportunity came up to talk to a professor who taught a statistics-related MOOC, I jumped at the chance.
Daniel D. Gutierrez, Data Scientist , 6/19/2013
A group of academic researchers finds itself improbably aligned with industry giant Google in its lawsuit with The Authors Guild. At stake is the ability of so-called "humanities scholars" to analyze massive amounts of data -- books -- for the purpose of basic searching and text mining.
Beth Schultz, Editor in Chief , 6/18/2013
The product engineering whizzes at Lenovo created a nifty mini notebook, the Yoga 11S, that's as powerful as it is flexible, sporting 3rd Generation Intel Core processors and easily transforming from laptop to tablet mode, tented, or standing. Now it's marketing's turn.
Fabian Pascal, Founder, Editor & Publisher, Database Debunkings , 6/18/2013
In a LinkedIn post, "What The Hell is... Big Data?," business author Bernard Marr said big-data "will change the world" and "impact everyone's life," but that the term "is not very well defined and is, in fact, not well chosen." I couldn't agree more -- with that second part, at least.
Beth Schultz, Editor in Chief , 6/17/2013
If you're working with data, you've got to be able to do some experimentation. Have a hypothesis, run a test, do some modeling, and see where the data leads you.
Noreen Seebacher, Community Editor , 6/17/2013
You may not like what people say about your company or brand, but you'll like what happens even less if you ignore it, act defensive about it, or simply try to wish it away.
Beth Schultz, Editor in Chief , 6/14/2013
By now you're no doubt well aware that Obama's 2012 campaign team had some serious analytical smarts. Here's an insider's look -- straight from the chief data scientist himself -- at the team that made it happen.
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Kelly A. McGuire, PhD, Executive Director, Hospitality & Travel Global Practice, SAS , 6/18/2013
It's hard to believe that we are already half way through 2013! As we head into the summer, it's a good time to look back on the topics we've already covered this year (in case you lost track) before we head forward into the second half of 2013.
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Next time you see one of those ubiquitous brown UPS trucks trundling along, think about this tidbit one company executive recently shared with me: That driver has more ways to run his delivery route than the number of nanoseconds the earth has been in existence.
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