16 options for the development of their skills in Data Science Excellent article from the author of the blog MachineLearningMastery, in which he offers many different directions for his own development as a specialist in the field of data analysis that currently exists.
Introduction to Big Data in the financial sector (part 3) The third part of a series of articles about the use of Big Data in the banking and financial sectors from the insideBIGDATA portal. This part will cover such topics as Credit Scoring and Back Trading / Testing.
How to start an analyst career Useful article from the blog Analytics Vidhya, where you can find a list of resources and a set of practical tips for those who are interested in a career as a specialist in the field of data analysis.
An Introduction to In-Memory Computing (Part 3) Continuation of a series of articles on In-Memory Computing from the insideBIGDATA portal. In this case, we will focus on the types of In-Memory Computing.
Julia's role in Data Science An interesting article about the Julia programming language and its role in data analysis.
7 Big Data Things You Should Remember An interesting article from the blog Big Data Analytics News, which offers 7 basic things to keep in mind before introducing technologies related to Big Data.
Azure ML helps CMU use electricity more efficiently An interesting post from the Microsoft Technet Machine Learning blog about how the new Microsoft Azure ML cloud product helps Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to more efficiently use electricity.
Why R is better than Excel for data analysis A useful post from Fantasy Football Analytics, describing the advantages of the R programming language over Excel in data analysis.
Microsoft Prediction Lab A short post from the Microsoft Technet Machine Learning blog about the Microsoft Prediction Lab.
Theory and algorithms of machine learning, code examples
Work with Data Frame in R A nice article about manipulating Data Frame objects in the R programming language from basic to using the dplyr library.
Introduction to Feature Selection Another interesting and useful article from the author of the blog MachineLearningMastery, in this case we will discuss such an important step in the process of machine learning as the Feature Selection.
Online courses, educational materials and literature
Started the online course "Social Network Analysis" More recently, the Coursera began an online course, Social Network Analysis, devoted to the analysis of social networks, which may seem interesting and useful to many.
Free book "DBA's Guide to NoSQL" Robin Schumacher in an article on the DataStax blog said that his small volume, but rather interesting book “DBA's Guide to NoSQL”, appeared in free access, which may be interesting to newcomers in the NoSQL-repository topic.
Review of the book "Modern Optimization with R" Review of the new book "Modern Optimization with R" from the portal KDnuggets, dedicated to the effective work with the programming language R.
Apache Storm History Nathan Marz - author of Apache Storm, has published a very interesting article in his blog about the history of the emergence and development of Apache Storm.
How to choose a data warehouse A small article on how to make the right choice of data warehouse for the successful implementation of a particular task.
Service "Cloudera Live" A useful service from the company Cloudera called “Cloudera Live”, which will help beginners to quickly master the Hadoop ecosystem.
What is Write Concern in MongoDB? The article, the author of which briefly describes the various modes of recording in the NoSQL MongoDB database.