Category Archives: Big Data education

Great Introduction to Hadoop (Video)

Posted on April 16, 2014 by GilPress

Adam Shook at the SpringOne2GX 2013 in Santa Clara, CA

Posted in Big Data Analytics, Big Data education, Hadoop, Training | 4 Comments

Keeping Up With The Quants May Prevent the Next Big Data Crisis

Posted on August 6, 2013 by GilPress

Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics, by Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim, is an accessible and timely introduction to the data mining work of quantitative analysts. Aimed primarily at a business audience, it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Big Data Analytics, Big Data Bubble, Big Data education, Big Data Futures, Big Data History | 2 Comments

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro on Big Data and Analytics (Slides)

Posted on March 3, 2013 by GilPress

An overview of analytics, data mining, and data science education in the era of Big Data: Analytics, data mining, data science – What do we call it? Big data trends Jobs and skills Analytics education overview Source: KDnuggets

Posted in Analysis, Big Data Analytics, Big Data education, Big Data Futures, Big data jobs, Data Discovery, Data Mining, Data Science, Data Science Careers, Data Science education | 1 Comment

Cool Data Scientists on Campus

Posted on March 2, 2013 by GilPress

Hal Varian:  “Data availability is going to continue to grow. To make that data useful is a challenge. It’s generally going to require human beings to do it.” Source: Carl Bialik, “Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus,” The Wall … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data Analytics, Big Data education, Big data jobs, Data Science Careers, Data Science education, Data Scientists, Education, Statistics | Leave a comment

Past Courses in Big Data Analytics and Data Science: Content Online

Posted on December 14, 2012 by GilPress

Past Courses in Big Data Analytics and Data Science Content Online Analyzing Big Data with Twitter (UC Berkeley, School of Information) (Fall 2012) Introduction to Data Science (Columbia University, Statistics Department) (Fall 2012 Introduction to  Data Science (UC Berkeley, Computer Science) (Spring … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data Analytics, Big Data education, Courses, Data Science, Data Science education, Training | 7 Comments