Overview of the most interesting materials on data analysis and machine learning №27 (December 15 - 21, 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

IBM has opened access to Watson Analytics for all
Artificial intelligence we are not a threat
Start using machine learning today - a good post from the author of the blog MachineLearningMastery, which will help beginners to quickly master basic things from the field of machine learning and start using machine learning algorithms in practice.
Baidu company has outlined a breakthrough in speech recognition and claims to bypass Google and Apple in this matter.
Top 10 Big Data Startups in 2014
5 Deep Learning startups, which is to follow in 2015
IBM Watson Analytics vs. Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Part 1) - a comparison of two analytical systems from the authors of the blog KDnuggets.com.
Data Mining (and Statistical Analysis) are the most in-demand skills according to LinkedIn for 2014.
The most popular skills in Data Science and Data Mining are an interesting study from the authors of the blog KDnuggets.com.
List of open source machine learning tools from KDnuggets.com
Best data visualization projects in 2014
22 key terms in big data that everyone should understand
Infographics from IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub: Four V in Big Data
Big Data Analytics News Big Data 2015 Forecasts
List of R resources for 2014 from Revolution Analytics
That every machine learning library can borrow from Vowpal Wabbit
The main trends in machine learning in 2014 based on the results of the last conference “Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2014”
List of useful resources on R from DZone.com
Predictions for 2015 in the field of Big Data
6 Big Data Predictions for 2015 from Information Week
Key Data Science trends for 2015 from Analytics Vidhya
Announcement of the new version of BabelNet - an article about the release of version 3.0 of the popular multilingual dictionary and the semantic network BabelNet, in which there is also Russian.
Apache Spark 1.2 Announcement
Htmlwidgets for R: a library for visualizing data in R using JavaScript
Scientific approach to solving data analysis problems

Theory and algorithms of machine learning, code examples

Hacker's guide to neural networks. Schemes of real values. Patterns in the "reverse" stream. Example "One neuron"
Oil Rows in R
Security scanners: automatic validation of vulnerabilities using fuzzy sets and neural networks
Implementing linear regression in Python
Sentiment Analysis using kimono and MonkeyLearn
Optimization of memory usage in R - useful article from the popular blog Yhat, dedicated to optimizing the use of RAM in the programming language R.
Hierarchical clustering with R (using D3.js and Shiny)
Ask a Data Scientist: Ensemble Methods is another article from the popular portal insideBIGDATA from the series “Ask a Data Scientist”, this issue will deal with such a concept as Ensemble Methods.

Machine learning competitions

An example of using convolutional neural networks for the “Facial Keypoint Detection Kaggle challenge”

Online courses, educational materials and literature

Online Stepic Course: Basics of Statistics - the course introduces students to the basic concepts and methods of mathematical statistics.
Data Analyst Nanodegree from Udacity - a brief overview of the program Data Analyst Nanodegree from Udacity.
Course on data visualization with D3.js - not so long ago, a new, quite curious course appeared on the Udacity online learning site, created in conjunction with the Zipfian Academy, on the topic of data visualization and using the popular D3.js visualization library.
The list of books on practical machine learning is a good list of books on practical machine learning from the author of the blog MachineLearningMastery.
14 best books on Big Data in 2014
Review of the book “Introduction to Data Science with R”
Review of Data Science at the Command Line
Free e-book "Big Data Basics"
Free e-book "Big Data Analytics for Dummies"
Free e-book “Practical Machine Learning: Innovations in Recommendation”

Video

Video of Badoo reports from the Highload 2014 conference
Modeling data in NoSQL - in this video, Jan Steemann (Senior Developer, triAGENS) will talk about how to properly model data in NoSQL repositories and present some clear practical examples.
Apache Cassandra for newbies - this post contains two video lectures that will help you understand the basic concepts of Apache Cassandra.
IBM Watson in action