Recently, Data Scientist Meetup (Boston) hosted Dan Dietrich of EMC to come talk about Build Data Science Teams. It’s always good to hear the perspective of someone like David who has the opportunity to work with many companies through EMC and identify some best practices. Read More…
video
John Rauser, “What is a Career in Big Data?”
Quantitative Engineer? Business Intelligence Analyst? Data Scientist? The data deluge has come upon us so quickly that we don’t even know what to call ourselves, much less how to make a career of working with data.
This talk examines the critical traits that lead to success by looking back to what may be the first act of data science Read More…
Video: Google’s Dir. of Research, Peter Norvig On Learning Programming (By Man & Machine)
Peter Norvig, Google’s Dir. of Research gave a talk on Learning Programming (By humans, by machines) to the NYC – Machine Learning Meetup Group this Summer. Here is the video. Read More…
Video: MIT | Free Course | Introduction to Computer Science and Programming
If you are open to learning “Will Hunting” style, then view this FREE course at MIT: Introduction to Computer Science & Programming. Might give you an idea if it’s some thing you want to pay to take elsewhere in your career preparation.
Lecture #1 has had over 1.5 Million Views. Note, that you should listen with speakers so the sound is good. Read More…
Video: How Foursquare Grew To 35 Million Users in 4 Years.
In this video, Crowley discusses how Foursquare has grown to 35 million users who have shared 4 billion check-ins, which are helping to power the startup’s increasingly popular search engine. Its location data are also powering a number of third-party services, from Path to Instagram to Uber. By Austin Carr of Fast Company Read More…
Video: Functional Programming From First Principles – By Erik Meijer (65,000 Views)
When to use functional programming languages and techniques By Claudio Caballero in Software Engineer, May 21, 2013, 11:00 AM // Claudiotrope If a project requires lots of concurrency/parallelism, its own language, or lots of math, you should think functional programming. As IT professionals, we have to balance proficiently executing on current projects with proven technologies and learning to implement new ways […]
Video: Building Analytical Applications on Hadoop – Cloudera’s Josh Wills (Watch It and Learn!)
Hi All, I personally watched this presentation and loved it given Josh’s ability to explain the technically difficult in simple terms. I recommend watching this video highly! – Ted Josh Will’s, Chief Data Scientist at Cloudera gives this presentation on “Building Analytical Applications on Hadoop” OVERVIEW: Data scientists– the analytical professionals who straddle the line between […]
Video: Data Forecast: What’s Next in Data Science (GE Reports) 2014
GE put on seminar of Industry Experts to talk about What’s Next in “Big Data” for 2014 and beyond. Has over 25,000 views. GE has become one of biggest innovators, especially for a global industrial manufacturer. Take a look Video streaming by Ustream
Video: Intro to MapReduce
Published on Mar 1, 2013 via MapR Intro to MapReduce concepts. Explores the flow of a MapReduce program.