Hi.
Before anything else, a big word of thanks! I would like to thank John Sonmez of Simple Programmer for his advice and his free blogging course. I have not followed all of his precious advice, and it took me a little more to be up and running that he showed in his lessons. But this is me, I like to have my hands dirty. I encourage all of you who would like to share something on the net to follow John’s advice to enroll into his free blogging course and just do it!
The reason for this blog:
With this blog I want to learn how to learn new-new things. What is this nonsense, you could comment, with more than a point. Of course I could go a news site and learn about the news of the day. Or I if I would like to aquire a new skill I could go on a course. Or take an online MOOC (I will come back on this one). No, this is not what I would like to learn. I would like to learn new facts, extracting it from data. The millions, trillions, gazillions pieces of information that are collected every second in todays’ world hide a lot of knowledge, and bringing it to surface is one of the biggest challenges of IT. It may well be possible that we have already a treatment for cancer that is working 95% of the times, only that we do not know it or that we have to adapt it to the patient data . And it could be that we have a better way to predict earthquakes. Of course these two very different disciplines have a lot of passionate researchers working full time and already correlating data. But am not talking about medicine or geophysics. I am talking about Computer Science, learning algorithm, data mining techniques that if properly used could propel every other discipline in a new era. So, I want to learn these techniques, looking forwards to the day when I wlil be able to make a proper use of them and I would like to share with you my learning experience and my thoughts.
To close this first post, I would like to quote Josh Wills’ tweet where he defined what a Data scientist is:
