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Public health case study: Tracking zombies and vampires using social media
Towards the end of 2012, a battle that the pitted state versus state, father versus son, wife versus Bunco group, dog versus cat, finally reached a truce spawned by the treaty we all sign every fours...
View ArticleThe future of big data with BDAS, the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack
By Andy Konwinski, Ion Stoica, and Matei Zaharia This month at Strata, the U.C. Berkeley AMPLab will be running a full day of big data tutorials.In this post, we present the motivation and vision for...
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Communicating data clearly
The 2013 Strata Conference in Santa Clara, CA will be my fifth Strata conference. As always, I’m excited to join so many leaders in the data and data viz communities, and I’m honored that I’ll be...
View ArticleYour analytics talent pool is not made up of misanthropes
To quote Pride and Prejudice, businesses have for many years “labored under the misapprehension” that their analytics talent was made up of misanthropes with neither the will nor the ability to...
View ArticleBigData Top 100 Initiative
By Milind Bhandarka, Chaitan Baru, Raghunath Nambiar, Meikel Poess, and Dr. Tilmann Rabl Big data systems are characterized by their flexibility in processing diverse data genres, such as transaction...
View ArticleThat’s it — I’m taking my data and going home
Russia’s railway gauge is different from Western Europe’s. At the border of the former Soviet states, the Russian gauge of 1.524m meets the European & American ‘Standard’ gauge of 1.435m. The...
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Fruit or mobile device: learning concepts through connections
Social media gives us the power to share content and engage with a wide range of internet users. As a person or brand, we are often concerned with who we are talking to and how we can better serve our...
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Maps not lists: network graphs for data exploration
Amy Heineike is Director of Mathematics for Quid Inc, where she has been since its inception, prototyping and launching the company’s technology for analyzing document sets. Below is the teaser for her...
View ArticleKeep your data science efforts from derailing
By Marck Vaisman and Sean Murphy Is your organization considering embracing data science? If so, we would like to give you some helpful advice on organizational and technical issues to consider before...
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On the importance of imagination in data science
Amy Heineike According to Amy Heineike, the Director of Mathematics at Quid, there’s nothing like having a fresh dataset in R and knowing how to use it. “You can add a few lines of code and discover...
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