The rapidly rising term “Data Scientist” caught up with “Statistician” and surpassed “Data Miner” on Google Trends. However, Statistics remains a lot more popular than “Data Science”, which begs the question: What do Data Scientists do? Clearly, it is not Data Science. By Gregory Piatetsky, Dec 22, 2013. comments A recent blog on Flowing Data:
As I frequently travel in data science circles, I’m hearing more and more about a new kind of tech war: Python vs. R. I’ve lived through many tech wars in the past, e.g. Windows vs. Linux, iPhone...
While heaps of big data exist in the travel sector – from how seasonality affects bookings to the types of travel packages that receive the highest conversion rates among consumers – leveraging some of the more unstructured...
CIOs must encourage data scientists to solve real business problems, not just play with data. As more organizations hire data scientists–especially for predictive analytics projects–IT leaders are discovering that managing people who can turn data into ideas...
Pasha Roberts will present at PAW San Francisco on this case study. A call center for a global financial firm had a problem – attrition. In order for a new employee to even be permitted to speak...
Predictive modeling offers the key to understanding which healthcare services most affect utilization, readmissions, and payment, and how to tackle the outliers. These analytics are within the grasp of any healthcare system. Somewhere out there, a hospital...
A controversial new Army plan would predict which soldiers might kill themselves, potentially enabling military to provide mental health counseling and other services to treat troubled troops. Even as thousands of U.S. servicemembers were dying in Iraq...
Michael Berry is taking a stand against the big data hype. More data, said the analytics director for travel website TripAdvisor, doesn’t always mean better business results. Case in point: big data and predictive analytics. “Many predictive...
MailChimp’s chief data scientist has a unique way of explaining data science to the masses. If you know a little Excel, you’re ready to learn. What’s the best way to teach data science to people who lack...
The Securities and Exchange Commission is using predictive analytics to evaluate risks facing the brokerage industry regulated by the agency and, potentially, to pinpoint firms headed for trouble. Beginning this financial quarter, the SEC’s newly created Division...
