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In our Big Data world, software applications and programming tools continue to expand the data scientist’s toolkit in facilitating the process of building predictive analytics solutions. Open-source tools have become much more prevalent in the last few years as they enable access to this discipline to a much wider array of people thereby providing much
We’ve organized data science blogs across eight different categories: Machine learning, Hadoop, R, Python, business intelligence, data visualization, statistics, and a general data science bucket. Data about their reader count comes from Feedly. This is a work...
Given this enormous volume of social media data, analysts have come to recognize Twitter as a virtual treasure trove of information for data mining, social network analysis, and information for sensing public opinion trends and groundswells of...
Will there be enough data scientists in the future? The question sounds like a subplot for a science fiction film, but it has received much attention over the past few years due to the forecast of a...
According to a new survey, Python’s data science training wheels increasingly lead to the R language. Use Code PATIMES15 for 15% off a two day pass or combo pass. (Excludes workshops & All Access) According to a...
As the amount of digital information generated by businesses and organizations continues to grow exponentially, a challenge – or as some have put it, a crisis – has developed. There just aren’t enough people with the required...
William Komp, PhD.,
Senior Data Scientist, SmarterHQ
Python has seen significant growth in utilization in the areas of data science and predictive analytics in both the corporate and academic worlds. The KDNuggets2014 poll of dominant languages in Data Science (http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/08/four-main-languages-analytics-data-mining-data-science.html) puts Python second to...
By: Josh Hemann, Director of Analytic Services, Activision
Much has been written about data-driven decision making. Someone new to analytics in business might reasonably think that the days of gut instinct and experience driving decisions are over, replaced by statistical models, machine learning methods, and...
By: Matt Asay, vice president of business development and corporate strategy,
MongoDB, Inc Originally published at
readwrite.com R remains popular with the PhDs of data science, but as data moves mainstream, Python is taking over. While R has traditionally been the programming language of choice for data scientists, it is quickly ceding ground...
As I frequently travel in data science circles, I’m hearing more and more about a new kind of tech war: Python vs. R. I’ve lived through many tech wars in the past, e.g. Windows vs. Linux, iPhone...
