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Forget your fancy data science, try overkill analytics
Meet Carter S. He used to be a lawyer, but now he writes predictive models for an insurance company. Admittedly green in certain new or advanced modeling methods, he prefers to use simple algorithms...
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NASA tries to free creativity with Big Data Challenge
Some of the U.S. government’s most research-intensive agencies want your help to come up with better ways to analyze their expansive data sets. NASA, along with the National Science Foundation and the...
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Why becoming a data scientist might be easier than you think
Maybe the business world has jumped the gun with all the talk about a looming skills shortage in big data and advanced analytics. There’s mounting evidence that it doesn’t take much to turn a novice...
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Greenplum and Kaggle launch big data matchmaking service
Sometimes it’s hard for data scientists and big data sets to find each other. That’s the problem that EMC’s Greenplum division and Kaggle are taking on with a new partnership. Kaggle is a predictive...
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Meet Kaggle Connect: matchmaker for data scientists and companies that need them
Here are two certainties about big data. One is that companies need good data scientists. The other is that identifying good data scientists ain’t easy. That’s why Kaggle, the data science competition...
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On Kaggle, GE finds data science solutions for patients and pilots
Even GE respects the wisdom of the crowd. The manufacturer joined up with Alaska Airlines, the Ochsner Health System and Kaggle in November to ask outside data scientists and designers to help give...
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Kaggle now has 100K data scientists, but what’s a data scientist?
Data science competition platform Kaggle has reached the 100,000-member milestone just over three years after launching, the company announced on its blog Thursday morning. That could mean either a lot...
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Facebook is hiring a data scientist, but you’ll have to fight for the job
Facebook is looking to hire a new data scientist, but rather than sift through résumés it’s planning to sift through algorithms. The company is turning to the data-science competition platform Kaggle...
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GigaOM Data Challenge: Predict which stories get read, win $10K
In publishing, analytics matter a lot. There’s a constant struggle to determine who will read what posts or articles, what the ideal headline might be and when publishing makes the most sense. That’s...
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Can Kaggle make data science a spectator sport?
Updated: Don’t worry if you don’t yet have a favorite data scientist, I don’t either. But maybe that’s just because we haven’t known who to root for. Kaggle hopes to change that with a twist on its...
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