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May 22, 2013

Vote in the KDnuggets poll on Analytics Software

The 14th annual KDnuggets poll measuring use of analytics software is open for voting. The poll asks, "What Predictive Analytics, Big Data, Data mining, Data Science software you used in the past 12 months for a real project?" and allows up to 20 choices from commercial software, open source software, and "big data" software.

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David Smith
May 22, 2013

R/Finance 2013 - quick take

by Joseph Rickert

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David Smith
May 21, 2013

Big Data Republic's list of Top 20 Big Data Accounts on Twitter

I'm very proud to have been selected today for Big Data Republic's list of the Top 20 Big Data Twitter accounts. With such Big Data practitioners, analysts and thought leaders like Kirk Borne, Hilary Mason, Pete Skomoroch, Mike Olson and Doug Henshchen on the list, I'm humbled to be listed at #3.

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David Smith
May 21, 2013

Get your questions answered about Open Data

The OpenData StackExchange site has just launched in beta, and looks to be a great resource for open data sources. Like StackOverflow for programming and CrossValidated for statistics,  OpenData is is a question and answer site for developers and researchers interested in open data.

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David Smith
May 20, 2013

R programming challenge: Escape the zombie horde

So when the world is taken over by a Zombie horde, you're going to want to figure out a way to get the human population to safety. This R script by econometrician Francis Smart won't help you do that exactly, but given a list of waypoints to navigate through zombie-infested lands to a safe house, it will tell you how many how many members of your human party survive: 

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David Smith
May 17, 2013

Because it's Friday: Compendium of Logical Fallacies

Ahh, arguing on the Internet. Whether it's about politics, religion, culture or science, if you're anything like me you've had 1000 online arguments and changed the mind of exactly nobody. Still, it's fun to exercise those debating muscles, and now with the handy website thou shalt not commit logical fallacies you have the perfect riposte to any invalid, inappropriate or just plain wrong argument (click for the full version):

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David Smith
May 17, 2013

R 3.0.1 released

The R core group has quickly followed up with a patch to R version 3. Announced yesterday, R 3.0.1 (code name: "Good Sport") improves serialization performance with big objects, improves reliability for parallel programming and fixes a few minor bugs.

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David Smith
May 17, 2013

Revolution Newsletter: May 2013

The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full May edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email.

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David Smith
May 16, 2013

Social Network Analysis at New Frontiers in Computing 2013

by Joseph Rickert

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David Smith
May 15, 2013

Statistics vs Data Science vs BI

As someone who trained as a statistician, I've always struggled with that title. I love the rigor and insight that Statistics brings to data analysis, but let's face it: Statistics — the name — has always had a bit of a branding problem. Telling someone I was a statistician was more likely to conjure up images of me counting runs at a baseball (or cricket) game than pursuing serious science.