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Born at Stanford and raised by a pack of wild PhDs, Tableau has best practices built right in. You get the benefit of years of research on the best way to represent data, from carefully optimized color schemes that tell clear stories, to built-in worldwide…

Selected articles, blog posts and forum questions from DSC, AnalyticBridge, BigDataNews

• Extreme Data Science…
  
  

Here's my rebuttal to this article published in Wired in 2008.

Vincent's rebuttal:

A lot can be done with black-box pattern…

Here are the top 10, in alphabetical order. Wiley's full list mentions many interesting statistical blogs.

• The Analysis…

Announcements and articles from the last couple of days:

• Viral program for data science authors and bloggers - Read updated version.…

This is a follow up to our video series From chaos to clusters, made with data points moving over time to form clusters, and produced with open source and home-made data science algorithms.…

Here I provide the mathematics, explanations and source code to produce the data and moving clusters in the From chaos to clusters video series.…

Sponsored Announcements

• Invitation to the Pivotal launch - this Wednesday. A new platform for a new era.…

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With so much data available for free everywhere, and so many open tools, I would expect to see the emergence of a new kind of analytic practitioners: the amateur data scientist.

Just like the amateur astronomer, the amateur data scientist will significantly contribute to the art and science, and will eventually solve…

All statistical textbooks focus on centrality (median, average or mean) and volatility (variance). None mention the third fundamental class of metrics: bumpiness.

Here we introduce the concept of bumpiness and…

In two weeks, you can greatly improve your resume by learning new stuff, at no cost, without attending any classes. All the links below contain actual material to get you started.

Check out the following resources:…

These big data problems probably impact many search engines. It also proves that there is still room for new start-up to invent superior search engines. These problems can be fixed with improved analytics and data science.

Here are the problems, and the solutions:…

From OnlineMathDegrees. It's broken down in different categories: 

• Comprehensive Statistics Sites
• Big Data & Machine Learning…

Or the home you would like to buy. Using Zillow forecasts, I obtained the following predictions, clearly indicating strong recovery for the West Coast, according to Zillow.

You can easily retrieve this data by entering a city on Zillow's location box, then clicking on any…

This one is a Javascript library to produce images for web documents. Here's some sample output:…

Selection from DSC, AB and BDN blog posts, forum questions and announcements:

• Unified Data Architecture: High-Performance Analytics (sponsored whitepaper)…

The first one is about NCAA. Check out the original and fully interactive version (you can click on nodes to get details) with description, at http://thepowerrank.com/visual/NCAA_Tournament_Predictions.

The second one is from me,…