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Data Science Data Science Follow 127 Followers Data Science up and down the Ladder of Abstraction by Henry Garner Henry Garner Follow 0 Followers Posted on Dec 02, 2016 Although Clojure lacks the extensive toolbox and analytic community of the most popular data science languages, R and Python, it provides a powerful environment for developing statistical thinking and for practicing effective data science.

Data Science Data Science Follow 127 Followers From Raw Data to Data Science: Adding Structure to Unstructured Data to Support Product Development by Rishi Nalin Kumar Rishi Nalin Kumar Follow 0 Followers Posted on Nov 25, 2016 With unstructured database technologies like Cassandra, MongoDB and even JSON storage in Postgres, unstructured data has become remarkably easy to store and to process. Software and data engineers alike can succeed in a world (mostly) free from data modelling, which is no longer a prerequisite to collecting data or extracting value from it.

Data Science Data Science Follow 127 Followers Getting Started with Machine Learning by Rafael Fernandes Rafael Fernandes Follow 0 Followers Posted on Nov 19, 2016 A quick introduction to the machine learning field, exploring both supervised and unsupervised approaches. 2

Data Science Data Science Follow 127 Followers Case Study: Selecting Big Data and Data Science Technologies at a large Financial Organisation by Christian Prokopp Christian Prokopp Follow 0 Followers Posted on Nov 10, 2016 Adopting Big Data and Data Science technologies into an organisation is a transformative project similar to an agile transformation and with many similar challenges. In this article, the author describes such a project for a FTSE100 financial services company.

Data Science Data Science Follow 127 Followers Solving Business Problems with Data Science by Francine Bennett Francine Bennett Follow 0 Followers Posted on Nov 06, 2016 Enterprises are increasingly realising that many of their most pressing business problems could be tackled with the application of a little data science. This article, the first in a series, looks at the foundations of a successful business-orientated data science project. 1

Data Science Data Science Follow 127 Followers Book Review: Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction by Charles Humble Charles Humble Follow 16 Followers Posted on Sep 06, 2016 “Big Data has plenty of evangelists, but I’m not one of them,” writes Cathy O’Neil, a blogger (mathsbabe.org) and former quantitative analyst at the hedge fund DE Shaw who became sufficiently disillusioned with her hedge fund modelling that she joined the Occupy movement. 4