Overview of the most interesting materials on data analysis and machine learning №17 (October 6 - 12, 2014)

I present to you the next issue of the review of the most interesting materials on the topic of data analysis and machine learning.

General

• Data mining makes scientific discoveries
• A simple way to assess the clarity of the text in Russian
• 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.
• Top 200 DataScienceCentral Bloggers
  Top 200 data analysis bloggers from the popular DataScienceCentral portal.

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.
• Introduction to the k-Neighbor Method
  A fairly simple description of the method k nearest neighbors with the blog Analytics Vidhya.

Machine learning competitions

• Competition Avito.ru-2014: recognition of contact information on images
  Competition to solve an applied problem in the field of image analysis.
• Machine Learning Competition "Tradeshift Text Classification"
  A new machine learning competition, Tradeshift Text Classification, has started on the Kaggle website.

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.
• Announcement of the second edition of the book "Doing Bayesian Data Analysis"
  The announcement of the second edition of the interesting book “Doing Bayesian Data Analysis”, which will be released soon.
• Review of the book "Monte Carlo simulation and resampling methods for social science"
  Another review of the interesting book “Monte Carlo simulation and resampling methods for social science”. For examples, the book uses the programming language R.
• Review of the book "Analytics in a Big Data World"
  A small review of a curious book on the topic of data analysis "Analytics in a Big Data World"

Video

• Materials from the meeting "Moscow Cassandra Meetup at Yandex"
  On October 4, a meeting was held at the Yandex office dedicated to the popular Apache Cassandra data warehouse. In this post you can find videos from this meeting.
• Ruslan Salakhutdinov about Deep Learning at the KDD 2014 conference
  A post about an interesting report by Ruslan Salakhutdinov from the University of Toronto on various aspects of the application of machine learning, namely the use of Deep Learning.

Data engineering

• Storage systems: how to choose?
• Meeting "PostgreSQL in Avito.ru"
  Announcement of the meeting dedicated to PostgreSQL DBMS, which will be held in Moscow.
• Apache Spark broke previous high-volume data sorting record
  An article from the DataBricks blog posting about the results of sorting performance tests using Apache Spark for a large amount of data.
• 7 most popular APIs in the field of Big Data (part 1)
  This series of articles focuses on various options for working with big data.
• 7 most popular APIs in the field of Big Data (part 2)
  The second part of a series of articles on various options for working with big data.
• 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.
• Couchbase Server 3.0 Announcement
  Announcement of the release of a new version of one of the most popular NoSQL-storages.

Reviews

• Data Mining News
  A small list of interesting resources on Data Mining from October 8.
• Weekly Digest from DataScienceCentral
  Regular weekly digest of articles on data analysis from the DataScienceCentral portal.
• Digest of the best resources from DataScienceCentral
  A good list of fresh interesting articles and resources from DataScienceCentral.
• The best materials for the week (September 28 - October 4)
  Best material for the week on data analysis from the portal KDnuggets.
• The best materials for September
  The best materials for September on the topic of data analysis from the portal KDnuggets.
• 10 best materials of the week
  10 best materials of the week on the subject of Data Science from the portal "Data Science Report"
• The most interesting materials from Freakonometrics # 172
  A collection of the most interesting materials from the popular portal Freakonometrics.
• The most interesting materials from Freakonometrics # 171
  A collection of the most interesting materials from the popular portal Freakonometrics.
• The most interesting materials on High Scalability
  Review of the most interesting materials on HighScalability from the popular High Scalability portal.
• Best material: NoSQL Zone (October 3 - 9)
  Collection of the best materials from the popular portal DZone on NoSQL.

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