This book by Joel Grus will give you an insight into the main topics of the Data Scientist daily work, in 25 chapters and around 300 pages. The book syllabus is available here, and you can explore it. If you buy from O’Reilly you can use the discount code on his web page (too bad …
The Coursera MOOC platform offers two specializations in the field of Data Science, that I have considered for learning about Data Science. One is the Johns Hopkins University Data Science Specialization, and the second is the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Data Mining Certificate. The two specializations take different approaches, the Johns Hopkins’ …
Yesterday morning, while driving to work I was listening to the Belgian radio and they come up with the news about a test on a web site, designed and implemented by two swedish researchers, that would reveal to everybody the probability of dying in the next five years. The test is available at the Ubble …
Tomorrow, June 8 2015, the Text Mining and Analytics course by Professor ChengXiang Zhai at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign starts on the Coursera platform. This is part of the Data Mining Specialization by the same university and it is closely related to the Text Retrieval and Search Engines course by the same professor. I …