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Elizabeth E Charles
November 9, 2016 2:41 PM
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The computer age triggered a seemingly endless stream of high-quality scientific data, but such incoming mountains of information come with a cost. The more data you amass, the tougher it is to comprehend what you’re dealing with.
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Elizabeth E Charles
September 29, 2016 12:37 PM
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In the beginning of the 20th century, as agrarian society pivoted to more manufacturing and service orientation, literacy rapidly shifted from being an advantage to being a necessity. I think most would agree that without literacy, it’s virtually impossible to get by today.
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Elizabeth E Charles
September 24, 2016 4:46 PM
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Web Scraping tools are specifically developed for extracting information from websites. They are also known as web harvesting tools or web data extraction tools. These tools are useful for anyone trying to collect some form of data from the Internet. Web Scraping is the new data entry technique that don’t require repetitive typing or copy-pasting.
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Elizabeth E Charles
September 14, 2016 4:12 PM
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If you’ve ever worked on a personal data science project, you’ve probably spent a lot of time browsing the internet looking for interesting datasets to analyze. It can be fun to sift through dozens of datasets to find the perfect one, but it can also be frustrating to download and import several csv files, only to realize that the data isn’t that interesting after all. Luckily, there are online repositories that curate datasets and (mostly) remove the uninteresting ones.
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Elizabeth E Charles
September 3, 2016 3:04 PM
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Data scientists are someone who is inquisitive and who can stare at data and spot trends. Individuals in this particular role don’t just sift through and organize piles of information for companies; they are part of a cross-functional team within an organization who provide various departments with pertinent information to facilitate growth and innovation. Now that you know what a data scientist is, let’s discuss how you can be on your way to be an effective Data Scientist.
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Elizabeth E Charles
August 13, 2016 3:42 PM
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Yes, there’s plenty of hype surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT). But this is one time the hype underestimates what comes next. IDC says there will be 28 billion sensors in use by 2020, with $1.7 trillion in economic value. The scale, breadth, and business value will exceed anything seen in the past. Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity is here. IoT will be an order of magnitude bigger than big data in scale and value.
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Elizabeth E Charles
August 8, 2016 10:45 AM
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Last week I spoke on a panel at the MITX eCommerce Summit entitled “Turning Mountains of Data into Streams of Revenue.” Along with other experts in the e-commerce space, I addressed the big data…
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Elizabeth E Charles
August 5, 2016 9:57 AM
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Regardless of how much data your company has -- and how much your business leaders are asking for -- you're likely missing some hidden gems. Here are 12 examples of what you might be overlooking, and why it matters to IT professionals, and to your business at large.
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Elizabeth E Charles
August 2, 2016 9:55 AM
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Four of the UK’s leading research organisations - Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), Research Councils UK (RCUK), Universities UK (UUK) and Wellcome Trust - have today launched a concordat that proposes a series of clear and practical principles for working with research data.
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Elizabeth E Charles
July 23, 2016 3:27 PM
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Twitter and traditional bibliometrics are separate but complementary aspects of research impact.
Via Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
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Elizabeth E Charles
July 12, 2016 7:27 AM
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Our latest UK Learning Analytics Network event attracted quite a few new attendees as well as some familiar faces. After a welcome from Prof. Duncan Lawson, Pro-Vice Chancellor: Formative Education, we had an update on Jisc’s Effective Learning Analytics project from Paul Bailey
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Elizabeth E Charles
July 8, 2016 2:49 PM
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Introduction
I've been writing a Tableau and Alteryx-focused blog for 1.5 years on Wordpress and haven't thought of writing anything here on DSC. I just comple…
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Elizabeth E Charles
November 2, 2016 5:09 PM
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Big Data analytics is among the fastest developing fields in enterprise technology. There’s no doubt that the technology fields around data analytics are hot. Analytics has become an important competitive for businesses, regardless of their scale or industry. Given the high demand, Big Data analytics has become a profitable area to upskill yourself. Here are 10 places to study big data analytics online.
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Elizabeth E Charles
September 28, 2016 5:52 PM
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During a recent webinar on the topic, questions raised ranged from requests for practical tips to confidentiality and copyright - presenter Dr. Rob Hooft answers them in this article
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Elizabeth E Charles
September 22, 2016 4:40 PM
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Challenges that People Analytics Must Overcome
I am excited about the role People Analytics will play in transforming organisations. I have seen some real success stories where organisations have incorporated more data-driven decisions about people and work.
David Green highlights some great case-studies in his article, 20 People Analytics case-studies, which includes, Virgin Media, who reduced sickness absence rates from 9% to 4% saving the business £750,000.
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Elizabeth E Charles
September 8, 2016 1:48 PM
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A group of higher ed professors, educational technical vendors and consultants has released findings on how to more carefully manage and utilize data mined by common systems and predictive analytics.
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Elizabeth E Charles
August 17, 2016 5:07 PM
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By combining the statistical horsepower of R with user-friendly visual analytics, organizations can further leverage the work of data scientists by empowering any business user to explore and understand the results. In this whitepaper, learn how your team of data scientists can combine R with visual analysis to make it easier for the business to: Understand sentiment trends in text data Identify similar groups within complex datasets Optimize decision-making
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Elizabeth E Charles
August 8, 2016 10:45 AM
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Big Data Analytics Made Easy ,We visually represent large datasets for data journalists and businesses to make the data lucid and actionable,generates visual insights on large-scale data, it is easier for enterprises to consume and act on these insight
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Elizabeth E Charles
August 7, 2016 12:14 PM
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Data Scientists use various techniques such as Regression, SVM, Neural network, Nearest neighbor, Naive Bayes, Decision Tree and Ensemble models.
These algorithms help to identify previously unrecognized patterns and trends hidden within vast amounts of structured and unstructured information. These patterns are used to create predictive models that try to forecast future behavior.
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Elizabeth E Charles
August 5, 2016 9:56 AM
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The predictability of big data analytics had a miniboom starting a few years back, almost at the same time that erstwhile baseball statistician Nate Silver found sudden success predicting elections. Then, unpredictability came knocking.
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Elizabeth E Charles
July 25, 2016 3:25 PM
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Here is some great content that you won't find on Google. I hope to add more in the future, and feel free to email me at vincentg@datashaping.com if you want to add some of your links.
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Elizabeth E Charles
July 12, 2016 2:29 PM
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With advances in computational methods and the proliferation of data sources, text and data mining offers exciting new directions for research. Neil Stewart, Jane Secker, Chris Morrison and Laurenc…
Whether you’re writing a blog post, putting together a presentation, or working on a full-length report, using data in your content marketing strategy is a must. Using data helps enhance your arguments by make your writing more compelling. It gives your readers context. And it helps provide support for your claims.
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