In this special guest feature for our Data Science 101 channel, Smita Adhikary of Big Data Analytics Hires highlights how data scientists sometimes tend to get bogged down in the “how” of a problem rather than the “why” of it, and end up delivering highly predictive, yet essentially meaningless models for the business.
Data Science 101: Getting a Free Mathematics Education for Data Science
September 8, 2015 by Leave a Comment
In this special feature, Daniel D. Gutierrez, Managing Editor of insideBIGDATA provides a number of free educational resources designed for budding data scientists to gain a foundation in mathematics.
Data Science 101: An Introduction to scikit-learn – Machine Learning in Python
August 31, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The tutorial presentation below offers an introduction to the scikit-learn package and to the central concepts of Machine Learning.
Data Science 101: Using the RForcecom R Package for Salesforce
August 18, 2015 by 2 Comments
In the short instructional video below, you’ll learn how to set up RForcecom, read an opportunity list from Salesforce and utilize a decision tree machine learning algorithm.
Data Science 101: Is Logistic Regression Dead?
July 29, 2015 by 19 Comments
In this special guest feature for our Data Science 101 channel, Smita Adhikary of Big Data Analytics Hires shares her thoughts about how the data science community has changed over the years – many useful tips for those just entering the field. Smita is a Managing Consultant at Big Data Analytics Hires – a talent search and recruiting firm focused primarily on Data Science and Decision Science professionals.
Data Science 101: Choosing the Right NoSQL Database
June 22, 2015 by Leave a Comment
NoSQL includes a wide range of different database technologies and was developed as a result of surging volume of data stored. The presentation below covers a number of topics to help you choose the right NoSQL database for your application
Data Science 101: How Deep Learning Powers Flickr
May 4, 2015 by Leave a Comment
In recent years, deep learning is making tremendous strides in the field of machine learning. To provide insights into how businesses are using this technology, the video presentation below looks behind the scenes at a company with a very recognizable name – Flickr. The presenter is Dr. Pierre Garrigues, Researcher in Machine Perception & Learning […]
Data Science 101: Deep Learning for Language Understanding
April 20, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The presentation below, “Deep Learning for Language Understanding,” took place at the Deep Learning Summit in San Francisco on 29-30 January 2015. The featured speaker is Quoc Le, Research Scientist at Google.
Data Science 101: Excel Tutorial on Analyzing Large Data Sets
April 13, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Our friends over at Udemy partnered with data scientist David Taylor (specialist in data spelunking and visualization) to create a fun (and free) Excel tutorial on analyzing large data sets.
Data Science 101: Deep Learning – Intelligence from Big Data
March 18, 2015 by Leave a Comment
From the Stanford Graduate School of Business, we have a compelling panel discussion – Deep Learning: Intelligence from Big Data.” A machine learning approach inspired by the human brain, Deep Learning is taking many industries by storm.
