Category Archives: Skills

Big Data Commentary Roundup

Posted on March 6, 2013 by GilPress

Katie Baker in Grantland: “After spending two days and nights [at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference] talking and thinking and hearing about data visualization and correlation coefficients and Big Data… and things like ‘Dequantizing the Player Draft Using Extreme … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Asking questions, Big Data Analytics, Big data market, Data Science, Data Scientists, Skills, Sports Analytics, Statistics | 1 Comment

Domain Expertise vs. Machine Learning: The Debate Continues

Posted on April 9, 2012 by GilPress

By starting to rank all the data scientists participating in its competitions, Kaggle today advanced further its argument that data science is a generic set of skills that can be applied to any problem without prior domain expertise. Talking to … Continue reading →

Posted in Competitions, Data Scientists, Domain Expertise, Kaggle, Machine Learning, Skills | Leave a comment