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  • Communication and the Data Scientist

    calendar Oct 23, 2012 · 1 min read · analytics conferences data science survey video  ·
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    I recently gave a presentation on communication issues around the terms “Data Science” and “Data Scientist”, based in part on a survey that I did with my Meetup colleagues Marck and Sean. The basic idea is that these new, extremely-broad buzzwords have resulted in confusion, which has impacted the ability of people …


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  • integrating R with other systems

    calendar Jun 16, 2012 · 1 min read · analytics conferences data science meetup programming R  ·
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    I just returned from the useR! 2012 conference for developers and users of R. One of the common themes to many of the presentations was integration of R-based statistical systems with other systems, be they other programming languages, web systems, or enterprise data systems. Some highlights for me were an update to …


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  • Survey of Data Science / Analytics / Big Data / Applied Stats / Machine Learning etc. Practitioners

    calendar May 10, 2012 · 1 min read · analytics data science meta operations research R survey  ·
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    As I’ve discussed here before, there is a debate raging (ok, maybe not raging) about terms such as “data science”, “analytics”, “data mining”, and “big data”. What do they mean, how do they overlap, and perhaps most importantly, who are the people who work in these fields? Along with two other DC-area Data Scientists, …


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  • Data Science, Moore's Law, and Moneyball

    calendar Sep 27, 2011 · 5 min read · analytics data science meetup  ·
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    I’m fond of navel gazing, meta discussions, and so forth. I’ve recently written about inferring navel gazing from link data, and about the meaning of the “Analytics” buzzword. This post will be my second on that other infectious buzzword, “Data Science”. When I moved to Washington DC in July, I was struck by the fact …


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  • hacking .gov shortened links

    calendar Jul 30, 2011 · 4 min read · analytics dataviz graphics hackathon R visualization  ·
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    This past Friday, the web portal to the US Federal government, USA.gov, organized hackathons across the US for programmers and data scientists to work with and analyze the data from their link-shortening service. It turns out that if you shorten a web link with bit.ly, the shortened link looks like 1.usa.gov/V6NpL …


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  • making meat shares more efficient with R and Symphony

    calendar May 9, 2011 · 9 min read · analytics csa operations research programming R  ·
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    In my previous post, I motivated a web application that would allow small-scale sustainable meat producers to sell directly to consumers using a meat share approach, using constrained optimization techniques to maximize utility for everyone involved. In this post, I’ll walk through some R code that I wrote to …


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  • making meat shares more efficient

    calendar May 9, 2011 · 6 min read · analytics csa food operations research  ·
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    A personal interest I have is the ethical and sustainable production of food. I’ve been a member of and helped run Community Supported Agriculture groups, and my wife and I currently purchase the majority of our meat from a group of upstate NY pastured-livestock producers who sell their products through CSAs. It’s an …


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  • intuitive visualizations of categorization for non-technical audiences

    calendar Apr 25, 2011 · 8 min read · analytics dataviz ggplot2 graphics predictive R visualization statistics  ·
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    For a project I’m working on at work, I’m building a predictive model that categorizes something (I can’t tell you what) into two bins. There is a default bin that 95% of the things belong to and a bin that the business cares a lot about, containing 5% of the things. Some readers may be familiar with the use of …


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  • On "Analytics" and related fields

    calendar Apr 15, 2011 · 6 min read · conferences data science job titles operations research statistics  ·
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    I recently attended the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research, aka “INFORMS Analytics 2011”, conference in Chicago. This deserves a little bit of an explanation. INFORMS is the professional organization for Operations Research (OR) and Management Science (MS), which are terms describing …


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  • "Data Scientist" and other titles

    calendar Feb 13, 2011 · 3 min read · data science job titles statistics  ·
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    Neil Saunders has an interesting (to me) blog post up this morning, with the title “Dumped on by data scientists.” He uses the use of “data scientist” in a Chronicle of Higher Ed article to rant a little bit about the term. For Neil, it’s redundant, as the act of doing science necessarily requires data; it’s insulting, …


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