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Building a Better Tomorrow with Open Source Analytics Tools

Sisense

The world moves fast: tons of data is generated every minute and organizations of all kinds need a powerful system that can keep up with that dataflow. Originally created in 2006, it’s one of the most popular open source BI tools. Got tons of data distributed across commodity hardware? That’s something Hadoop excels at.

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Using random effects models in prediction problems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Far from hypothetical, we have encountered these issues in our experiences with "big data" prediction problems. We often use statistical models to summarize the variation in our data, and random effects models are well suited for this — they are a form of ANOVA after all. Cambridge University Press, (2006). [2]

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A Big Data Imperative: Driving Big Action

Occam's Razor

Is there anything in the analytics space that is so full of promise and hype and sexiness and possible awesomeness than "big data?" So what is big data really? As I interpret it, big data is the collection of massive databases of structured and unstructured data. No one quite knows.

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

He was saying this doesn’t belong just in statistics. He also really informed a lot of the early thinking about data visualization. It involved a lot of interesting work on something new that was data management. To some extent, academia still struggles a lot with how to stick data science into some sort of discipline.

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Misleading Statistics Examples – Discover The Potential For Misuse of Statistics & Data In The Digital Age

datapine

1) What Is A Misleading Statistic? 2) Are Statistics Reliable? 3) Misleading Statistics Examples In Real Life. 4) How Can Statistics Be Misleading. 5) How To Avoid & Identify The Misuse Of Statistics? If all this is true, what is the problem with statistics? What Is A Misleading Statistic?

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Quantifying the statistical skills needed to be a Google Data Scientists

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Defining "Data Scientist" If you look through job listings at Google for data scientists , you will find a role called Data Scientist - Research (DS-R for short). This role has several explicit requirements including statistical expertise, programming/ML, communication, data analysis/intuition.