Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Transforming Information Into Knowledge
I was fascinated with the chart that shows how often self-identified data scientists with different skill sets work with different scales of data. It is notable that most data scientists weren’t using big data (see the chart below). I assume that in 2015 a much larger percentage of data scientists are working on a terabyte or petabyte scale.
UPDATE: After talking to Mr. Hammond, I realized the main use case I was envisioning isn’t what he’s focusing on. He is focusing on a final product that is a complete news article, like about a baseball game or an earnings announcement. ORIGINAL POST: I […]
I just heard DJ Patel, the guy who created LinkedIn’s data team talk about creating data science teams. Besides mentioning Python in passing, he didn’t talk about software skills or statistics competency. Instead, he said being a creative problem solver was the most important prerequisite. Here […]
One of the benefits of Big Data analytics is that it incorporates previously unmanageable data with existing customer information located in data warehouses. James Kobielus of Forrester didn’t spend time going into the intricacies of the data management, but did talk about how it is […]
I’m going to ignore my problems with the term “data scientists” and focus on the actual topic. This is going to be the first of several posts on the subject. Cathy O’Neil of Intent Media talked about hiring data scientists at today’s Strata Summit. To […]
As someone who works at a company that conducts surveys, I know that collecting more information is pointless if you don’t have the capabilities to analyze it effectively. If people don’t take this conclusion to heart, they will be deeply disappointed by whatever “big data” […]
Fun, fun, fun, Judaism is cool! What other religion tells you to get drunk, so drunk you can’t tell the difference between Haman (bad guy) and Mordechai (good guy)? In honor of Purim, Nancella, Scott, and I went to American Schmidol at the Bowery Ballroom. […]
I shouldn’t have been so excited to hear Jonathan Lethem speak just because he was recently awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, which is the “genius award” my father used to talk to me about. I had never read any of his books, which include Fortress of […]
Do you have childhood memories of a pillow fight? Do you like to engage in public activities others steer away from? If so, then you should have been at the pillow fight in Union Square this Saturday. Newmindspace organized this event as interactive public art. […]
Once a month a bunch of intellectual Jews gather in the Lower East Side. Surrounded by Soviet propaganda, the evening could have taken place 50 or 100 years ago, but this is New York City circa 2006. Novel Jews is a series of readings by […]
Yeah, it usually means Jewish American Princess, but that term didn’t define the three black clad women on a Makor panel about “Debunking the Myth of the JAP”. According to Rhonda Lieberman, Isabel Rose, and Alana Newhouse, a JAP is stereotypically spoiled, loves shopping, shallow, […]
Starting off the fall lecture season, tonight’s public forum was definitely an example of “deliberative democracy”, as the host Brian Lehrer put it. At least four people were removed from the audience for exercising their First Amendment right to scream, mostly about the trampling of the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches.