Posted 1 month ago

Intro to Big Data with Hadoop Workshop

To conclude Big Data Week, Data Community DC is holding a hands-on introductory Hadoop workshop on Saturday, April 27th in Washington DC.  

You’ve heard and read about it everywhere, now come learn what it is and how to use it.  By the end of the workshop, you will have gained a solid understanding of the Hadoop ecosystem, successfully set up a Hadoop cluster, and ran several different types of queries on the data.

Register at http://www.meetup.com/Data-Community-DC/events/110946502/

Posted 2 months ago
I'm an American statistician living and working in Shanghai. I recently read about your site SageBourse via a post on R-Bloggers and I liked the idea. I'm curious - do you plan on using the site to generate income personally? If so, how will you monetize it?
jgreenb1 asked

Eventually yes.  I would like to get it to the point where it is profitable so that it can be a sustainable service for people that want to learn these skills.  I have a couple strategies planned for doing that, but right now I’m just focused on growing both the supply of knowledge and the demand for it in a balanced way.  

Posted 4 months ago

Weekly Round-Up: Getting Started with Data Science, Interview Questions, GE’s Big Data Plans, Lean Startup Experiment Data, and Brain Visualizations

In this first week of 2013, we found a variety of interesting data science articles ranging in topics from some ways to get started in data science and some interview questions you can expect if you land an interview to some future applications for machine-generated data.

In this week’s round-up:

  • Software engineer’s guide to getting started with data science
  • Interview Questions for Data Scientists
  • General Electric lays out big plans for big data
  • Early Evidence Is Often Too Early And Not Really Evidence
  • Scientists construct first map of how the brain organizes everything we see

Check out the round-up!

(Source: datacommunitydc.org)

Posted 4 months ago

Weekly Roundup: Simpler Data Tools, The Future of Data, Open Data, Big Data Dangers, and NBA Missile Tracking Cameras

This week, we encountered several interesting data articles and blog posts we thought were worthwhile for the round-up. As this year comes to a close, we were reminded of how much noise is out there about data, having to sift through hundreds of “Year in Review” and “Big Data Predictions for 2013″ articles that are currently being published. We chose to bypass those for this round-up in favor of focusing on longer term trends, interesting ways data is being used, and important things to consider when handling data.

Happy New Year, everyone!

In this week’s round-up:

  • We don’t need more data scientists, just make big data easier to use
  • The Secret Life of Data in the Year 2020
  • Open data is not a panacea
  • The Danger Of Big Data
  • How Missile Tracking Cameras Are Remaking The NBA

Check out the round-up!

Posted 4 months ago

Event Review: Political Campaign Data Science

Our December Data Science DC Meetup was about Data Science in Political Campaigns, and we had four experts come in to give short presentations about their work and then participate in a panel discussion.  Here is an overview of each of the four presentations, including slides and audio where available.  For those of you who couldn’t make it to the event, hopefully this gives you a good sense of what was presented and for those who were there, hopefully this lets you relive the political data magic.

Check out the review, slides, and audio here!

Posted 4 months ago

Weekly Round-Up: Data-Driven Processes & Products, SMB Big Data, Telling Stories, and Fighting Bullying

For this week’s round-up of the most interesting data articles and blog posts from around the web, we have several articles ranging in topics from using big data in small and medium sized businesses to using machine learning to combat bullying.

In this week’s round-up:

  • So I’ve got Big Data. Now What?
  • How small and mid-sized businesses can tap the power of big data
  • The key to data science? Telling stories
  • Fighting bullying with machine learning

Read the round-up!

(Source: datacommunitydc.org)

Posted 5 months ago

Event Review: Money for Nothing – Productizing Government Data

Some companies are increasingly closing their APIs and locking down their data with the aim of figuring out how to monetize it. The government, however, is doing the opposite. It’s actively creating API’s to make government more transparent and accessible.

This is creating new opportunities for businesses who are willing to make sense of and transform the data into something valuable for a particular market. These new opportunities and the lessons learned by those in the trenches was the theme for Data Business DC‘s (DBDC’s) second meetup Money For Nothing — Productizing Government Data. Presenters ranged from the small, one-person startup using government data as the foundation of the business to a senior government official talking about the challenges, successes, and opportunities of using government data.

Check out the review!

(Source: datacommunitydc.org)

Posted 5 months ago

Weekly Round-Up: Kurzweil & Google, Big Data Obstacles, Human Intelligence, Data Strategy, and Premature Babies

This past week was an exciting one in data. There were a lot of good articles published and we found several of them interesting enough to include in this week’s round-up.

In this week’s round-up:

  • Kurzweil joins Google
  • Big Data’s Biggest Obstacles
  • Operations, machine learning and premature babies
  • How To Augment Predictive Analytics with Human Intelligence
  • Define your big data strategy with these key steps

(Source: datacommunitydc.org)

Posted 5 months ago

Hack//Meat or Data Community DC Members go to NYC

This past weekend, five intrepid souls (Robert Vesco, Valerie Coffman, Harlan Harris, Octavian Geagla, Sean Patrick Murphy) from Data Community DC converged on New York City for the first Hack//Meat.

Posted 5 months ago

Weekly Round-Up: Big Data Business Models, Cloudera, BI Trends, and Cool Visualizations

This week, we continue our data round-up series containing the most interesting data science, machine learning, statistics, and analytics articles we’ve come across.  We found several great articles this week with topics spanning from big data to business intelligence with some interesting data visualizations sprinkled in there.

In this week’s round-up:

  • What a Big Data Business Model Looks Like
  • Mapping Twitter’s Python and Data Science Communities
  • Big Data Leader Cloudera Raises $65M to Fuel Further Hadoop Adoption
  • Infographic: Google’s Flu Map Might Predict the Next Big Epidemic
  • Top 10 Trends for Business Intelligence

(Source: datacommunitydc.org)