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Lots of Data Does Not Equal “Big Data”

by Joseph Rickert by Joseph RickertWhen talking with data scientists and analysts…

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NCAA Data Visualizer for March Madness Face-Offs

If you're laying down a friendly bet on the March Madness games…

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Open Data App for the Paris Métro

When I lived in Paris years ago, I worked near Gare du…

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Data Science Education Gets Personal

by Joseph B. Rickert by Joseph B. RickertIt is difficult to imagine…

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R Script Creates a Map of Worldwide Email Traffic

The Washington Post reports that by analyzing more than 10 million emails…

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R Script Tracks Bookies’ Favorites for the Next Pope

Tired of manually running a python script to scrape the latest bookmaker…

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Big Data and Predictive Analytics in Video Games

As a gamer, I was especially interested to see what Electronic Art's…

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Resampling Data in Hadoop with RHadoop

On Revolution Analytics partner Cloudera's blog, Uri Laserson has posted an excellent guide…

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10 R Packages Every Data Scientist Should Know About

The yhat blog lists 10 R packages they wish they'd known about…

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Video: Data Mining with R

Our recent Introduction to R for Data Mining webinar was a record setter,…

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