Category Archives: Data Science education

Data Science Skills: Domain Expertise, Programming, Statistics

Posted on January 30, 2017 by

Source: Business Over Broadway Based on a study of 620+ data professionals, we found that data science skills fall into three broad areas: domain expertise (in our case, business), technology/programming and math/statistics. Advertisements

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Democratizing Data Science Education (Video)

Posted on June 30, 2016 by

Personalized, open data science courses at scale Source: Jonathan Cornelissen @DataCamp.com    

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Using Machine Learning to Predict Customers’ Purchases (Video)

Posted on December 7, 2015 by

In her project called “More than Guts,” Galvanize Data Science graduate Deseanae Bluiett uses machine learning to easily provide data driven sales and marketing insights. The focal point is an interactive sales and marketing dashboard that identifies customer segments and utilizes … Continue reading →

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2015 Trends in Data Science (Infographic)

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Big Data Analytics 2014 Predictions from IIA

Posted on December 11, 2013 by

Listen to the recorded webcast here. From Sarah Gates’ post: “At the end of the webcast, our listeners voted on which predictions they thought would come true.  The results of the voting are shown below.  If they are right, we … Continue reading →

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Competitive Data Science with R and Python (Video)

Posted on July 20, 2013 by

Corey Chivers presents “From Dark Matter to Whale Calls: Competitive data-mining with R and Python” at Montreal Python; quotes John Tukey “The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone’s backyard” and updates it … Continue reading →

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Visualising the Road to Becoming a Data Scientist

Posted on July 12, 2013 by

Source: Swami Chandrasekaran  

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