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code.fb.com December 5, 2018
FAIR at 5 : Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research accomplishments

Five years ago, we created the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) group to advance the state of the art of AI through open research for the benefit of all — it’s an effort to understand the nature of intelligence so that we might create intelligent machines.
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gizmodo.com December 5, 2018
How We Can Prepare for Catastrophically Dangerous AI—and Why We Can't Wait

Artificial intelligence in its current form is mostly harmless, but that’s not going to last.
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entrepreneur.com December 7, 2018
Kickstart a Lucrative Data Science Career for Less Than $50

Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you'll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. For the third year in a row, data scientist is the No. 1 job in the U.S.
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hacks.mozilla.org December 6, 2018
Rust 2018 is here… but what is it? – Mozilla Hacks : the Web developer blog

This post was written in collaboration with the Rust Team (the “we” in this article). You can also read their announcement on the Rust blog. Starting today, the Rust 2018 edition is in its first release.
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hbr.org December 4, 2018
What Great Data Analysts Do — and Why Every Organization Needs Them

The top trophy hire in data science is elusive, and it’s no surprise: a “full-stack” data scientist has mastery of machine learning, statistics, and analytics.
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info.cloudquant.com December 7, 2018
Fixing Python Memory Leaks

A few of our power users reported that long-running backtests would sometimes run out of memory. These power-users are the people who often find new trading strategies and so we wanted to work with them to improve the performance of our backtesting tools.
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blogs.windows.com December 6, 2018
Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration

For the past few years, Microsoft has meaningfully increased participation in the open source software (OSS) community, becoming one of the world’s largest supporters of OSS projects.
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genius.engineering December 5, 2018
Faster and simpler with the command line: deep-comparing two 5GB JSON files 3X faster by ditching the code

As part of our recently announced deal with Apple Music, you can now view Genius lyrics for your favorite music within the Apple Music app. We deliver our lyrics to Apple via a nightly export of newline-delimited JSON objects.
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theappsolutions.com December 8, 2018
Machine Learning Algorithms: 4 Types You Should Know

Machine Learning came a long way from a science fiction fancy to a reliable and diverse business tool that amplifies multiple elements of the business operation.
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engineering.linkedin.com December 16, 2013
The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction

I joined LinkedIn about six years ago at a particularly interesting time. We were just beginning to run up against the limits of our monolithic, centralized database and needed to start the transition to a portfolio of specialized distributed systems.
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medium.freecodecamp.org January 20, 2017
The Rise of the Data Engineer

I joined Facebook in 2011 as a business intelligence engineer. By the time I left in 2013, I was a data engineer. I wasn’t promoted or assigned to this new role. Instead, Facebook came to realize that the work we were doing transcended classic business intelligence.
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priceonomics.com April 29, 2016
Why That Salesperson Just Won’t Stop Emailing You

This post is adapted from the blog of LeadGenius, a Priceonomics customer. Does your company have interesting data or insights? Become a Priceonomics customer.
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fastcompany.com February 8, 2017
A Dead Simple Tool To Find Out What Facebook Knows About You

That’s the question behind the new Chrome extension Data Selfie.
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ft.com March 28, 2014
Big data: are we making a big mistake?

Five years ago, a team of researchers from Google announced a remarkable achievement in one of the world’s top scientific journals, Nature. Without needing the results of a single medical check-up, they were nevertheless able to track the spread of influenza across the US.
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datacamp.com January 3, 2017
Python Machine Learning: Scikit-Learn Tutorial

Machine learning is a branch in computer science that studies the design of algorithms that can learn. Typical tasks are concept learning, function learning or “predictive modeling”, clustering and finding predictive patterns.
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aadrake.com January 18, 2014
Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster

Introduction As I was browsing the web and catching up on some sites I visit periodically, I found a cool article from Tom Hayden about using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and mrjob in order to compute some statistics on win/loss ratios for chess games he downloaded from the millionbase archive,
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slack.engineering December 7, 2016
Data Wrangling at Slack

For a company like Slack that strives to be as data-driven as possible, understanding how our users use our product is essential. We knew when we started building this system that we would need flexibility in choosing the tools to process and analyze our data.
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johnnunemaker.com February 24, 2014
Analytics at GitHub

In the interest of getting back into writing, I want to break the seal with a simple “what have I been up to and thinking about lately” style post. Hopefully future topics will be more focused and frequent. For the past year, I have been working on data and analytics at GitHub.
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rs.io May 29, 2014
100+ Interesting Data Sets for Statistics

Edit: Hey guys! This has proved to be one of the most popular articles on the site, so I’ve created a supplemental download on the 5 biggest statistics mistakes beginners make and how to avoid them.
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blogs.harvard.edu March 23, 2018
Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problems are nothing compared to what’s coming for all of online publishing

Let’s start with Facebook’s Surveillance Machine, by Zeynep Tufekci in last Monday’s New York Times. Among other things (all correct), Zeynep explains that “Facebook makes money, in other words, by profiling us and then selling our attention to advertisers, political actors and others.
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theguardian.com January 19, 2017
How statistics lost their power – and why we should fear what comes next

The ability of statistics to accurately represent the world is declining. In its wake, a new age of big data controlled by private companies is taking over – and putting democracy in peril by In theory, statistics should help settle arguments.
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code.facebook.com August 31, 2016
Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard

People are creating, sharing, and storing data at a faster rate than at any other time in history.
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martinruenz.de February 14, 2016
The dark side of big data

First things first, what is big data about? Control.
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kaushik.net February 25, 2014
7 Data Presentation Tips: Think, Focus, Simplify, Calibrate, Visualize++

There are three elements to our "big data" efforts, or unhyped normal data efforts: Data Collection, Data Reporting, and Data Analysis. We are all aware that the best companies in the world have an optimal DC-DR-DA allocation when it comes to time/money/people: 15%-20%-65%.
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mckinsey.com July 10, 2018
Making data analytics work for you—instead of the other way around

Does your data have a purpose? If not, you’re spinning your wheels. Here’s how to discover one and then translate it into action. The data-analytics revolution now under way has the potential to transform how companies organize, operate, manage talent, and create value.
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techblog.bozho.net November 29, 2017
GDPR – A Practical Guide For Developers

You’ve probably heard about GDPR. The new European data protection regulation that applies practically to everyone. Especially if you are working in a big company, it’s most likely that there’s already a process for getting your systems in compliance with the regulation.
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forbes.com February 12, 2016
Big Data: 33 Brilliant And Free Data Sources Anyone Can Use

Data is ubiquitous — but sometimes it can be hard to see the forest for the trees, as it were. Many companies of various sizes believe they have to collect their own data to see benefits from big data analytics, but it’s simply not true.
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analyticsvidhya.com May 30, 2018
24 Ultimate Data Science Projects To Boost Your Knowledge and Skills (& can be accessed freely)

This article was originally published on October 26, 2016 and updated with new projects on 30th May, 2018. Data science projects offer you a promising way to kick-start your career in this field.
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techblog.netflix.com January 27, 2015
Netflix's Viewing Data: How We Know Where You Are in House of Cards

Over the past 7 years, Netflix streaming has expanded from thousands of members watching occasionally to millions of members watching over two billion hours every month.
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forbes.com June 16, 2016
Excel Reporting: 5 Reasons Why It Is Bad For Business

We’ve entered the age of big data, in which more and more companies are seeing the value and importance of data in many different areas of their business, from market and customer research, to internal sales figures and HR analytics.
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blog.algorithmia.com October 31, 2016
Introduction to Machine Learning for Developers

Today’s developers often hear about leveraging machine learning algorithms in order to build more intelligent applications, but many don’t know where to start.
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thenextweb.com April 21, 2015
The 14 best data visualization tools

Raw data is boring and it’s difficult to make sense of it in its natural form. Add visualization to it and you get something that everybody can easily digest.
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econsultancy.com February 26, 2017
17 visualisation tools to make your data beautiful

You don’t need to be a seasoned data scientist or have a degree in graphic design in order to create incredible data visualisations. It has become a lot simpler to mine your data and interpret your insights in an engaging, attractive, and most importantly easy to understand way.
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nirvacana.com July 8, 2013
Curriculum via Metromap – Pragmatic Perspectives

Data Science, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, Cognitive Computing …. well all of us have been avalanched with articles, skills demand info graph’s and point of views on these topics (yawn!). One thing is for sure; you cannot become a data scientist overnight.
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idlewords.com
Haunted By Data

In preparing this talk I decided to check out the data landscape, since I hadn't seen it for a while. The terminology around Big Data is surprisingly bucolic. Data flows through streams into the data lake, or else it's captured in logs.
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stripe.com February 2, 2017
Online migrations at scale

Engineering teams face a common challenge when building software: they eventually need to redesign the data models they use to support clean abstractions and more complex features.
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johnwittenauer.net December 5, 2014
Machine Learning Exercises In Python, Part 1

This post is part of a series covering the exercises from Andrew Ng's machine learning class on Coursera. The original code, exercise text, and data files for this post are available here. One of the pivotal moments in my professional development this year came when I discovered Coursera.
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archagon.net March 24, 2018
Data Laced with History: Causal Trees & Operational CRDTs

(Sorry about the length! At some point in the distant past, this was supposed to be a short blog post. If you like, you can skip straight to the demo section to get a sense of what this article is about.) Embarrassingly, most of my app development to date has been confined to local devices.
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hbr.org June 1, 2016
Visualizations That Really Work

Knowledge workers need greater visual literacy than they used to, because so much data—and so many ideas—are now presented graphically. But few of us have been taught data-visualization skills.
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datasciencecentral.com March 28, 2015
How to Become a Data Scientist - On your own

Big Data, Data Sciences, and Predictive Analytics are the talk of the town and it doesn’t matter which town you are referring to, it’s everywhere, from the White House hiring DJ Patil as the first chief data scientist to the United Nations using predictive analytics to forecast bombings on scho
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techcrunch.com August 23, 2017
Five building blocks of a data-driven culture

How can organizations leverage data as a strategic asset? Data comes at a high price. Businesses must pay for data collection and cleansing, hosting and maintenance, salaries of data engineers, data scientists and analysts, risk of breach and so on. The line items add up.
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hbr.org June 23, 2017
How to Integrate Data and Analytics into Every Part of Your Organization

Many conversations about data and analytics (D&A) start by focusing on technology. Having the right tools is critically important, but too often executives overlook or underestimate the significance of the people and organizational components required to build a successful D&A function.
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economist.com May 6, 2017
Data is giving rise to a new economy

AN OIL refinery is an industrial cathedral, a place of power, drama and dark recesses: ornate cracking towers its gothic pinnacles, flaring gas its stained glass, the stench of hydrocarbons its heady incense.
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blog.stephenwolfram.com April 24, 2013
Data Science of the Facebook World—Stephen Wolfram Blog

More than a million people have now used our Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook. And as part of our latest update, in addition to collecting some anonymized statistics, we launched a Data Donor program that allows people to contribute detailed data to us for research purposes.
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theguardian.com September 26, 2017
I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets

At 9.24pm (and one second) on the night of Wednesday 18 December 2013, from the second arrondissement of Paris, I wrote “Hello!” to my first ever Tinder match. Since that day I’ve fired up the app 920 times and matched with 870 different people.
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venturebeat.com July 17, 2016
Forget learning to code: Every employee should know data analysis

“Learn to code.” Around the world, it has been a familiar refrain. And the world has duly learned. Time was that the standard in-school computer education was little more than word processing, spreadsheets and some basic programming.
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engineeringblog.yelp.com July 14, 2016
Billions of Messages a Day - Yelp's Real-time Data Pipeline

This is the first post in a series covering Yelp's real-time streaming data infrastructure.
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slate.com October 16, 2017
How “Big Data” Went Bust

Five years ago—in February 2012—an article in the New York Times’ Sunday Review heralded the arrival of a new epoch in human affairs: “The Age of Big Data.
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mattturck.com April 5, 2017
Firing on All Cylinders: The 2017 Big Data Landscape

It feels good to be a data geek in 2017. Last year, we asked “Is Big Data Still a Thing?”, observing that since Big Data is largely “plumbing”, it has been subject to enterprise adoption cycles that are much slower than the hype cycle.
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kdnuggets.com September 20, 2018
7 Steps to Mastering Data Preparation with Python

Data preparation, cleaning, pre-processing, cleansing, wrangling. Whatever term you choose, they refer to a roughly related set of pre-modeling data activities in the machine learning, data mining, and data science communities. ...
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analyticsvidhya.com February 17, 2017
Top 28 Cheat Sheets for Machine Learning, Data Science, Probability, SQL & Big Data

Data Science is an ever-growing field, there are numerous tools & techniques to remember. It is not possible for anyone to remember all the functions, operations and formulas of each concept. That’s why we have cheat sheets.
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blog.yhat.com January 26, 2017
Becoming a Data Scientist

This blogpost is an excerpt of Springboard's free guide to data science jobs and originally appeared on the Springboard blog. Most data scientists use a combination of skills every day, some of which they have taught themselves on the job or otherwise. They also come from various backgrounds.
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bigmedium.com June 7, 2017
Design in the Era of the Algorithm

What shall we make? This talk is about what’s coming next for us as designers. What’s the work ahead for us, and what’s our role and responsibility in this future? Designing for what’s next is what my studio Big Medium does.
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medium.freecodecamp.org August 22, 2017
How to become a Data Scientist

Hi! I’m Jose Portilla and I’m an instructor on Udemy with over 250,000 students enrolled across various courses on Python for Data Science and Machine Learning, R Programming for Data Science, Python for Big Data, and many more.
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forbes.com March 8, 2016
21 Scary Things Big Data Knows About You

What does big data know about you? Quite a lot.
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ai.googleblog.com August 25, 2017
Exploring and Visualizing an Open Global Dataset

To understand visual patterns within the dataset quickly and efficiently, we worked with artist Kyle McDonald to overlay thousands of drawings from around the world. This helped us create composite images and identify trends in each nation, as well across all nations.
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auth0.com November 9, 2015
Intro to Microservices, Part 4: Dependencies and Data Sharing

In this post in the microservices series we will study how to manage inter-service dependencies and how to deal with implicit interfaces in the form of data sharing. We will also extend our existing examples from the microservices series to show some of the concepts in this post.
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lifehacker.com
What Is "Big Data," and Who's Collecting It?

Dear Lifehacker, I've been hearing more and more about "big data." What is it, and is it something I should be worried about? Is this another way companies harvest my data and sell it? Dear Bewitched by Buzzwords, "Big data" is the latest tech industry buzz-phrase.
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multithreaded.stitchfix.com March 16, 2016
Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL: A Guide to Building a High Functioning Data Science Department

“What is the relationship like between your team and the data scientists?” This is, without a doubt, the question I’m most frequently asked when conducting interviews for data platform engineers.
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medium.com January 8, 2018
A Beginner’s Guide to Data Engineering — Part I

The more experienced I become as a data scientist, the more convinced I am that data engineering is one of the most critical and foundational skills in any data scientist’s toolkit. I find this to be true for both evaluating project or job opportunities and scaling one’s work on the job.
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edge.org November 8, 2018
Popper Versus Bacon

All my life, the problems that have been of interest to me are the ones that connect science into a whole.
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datasciencecentral.com February 27, 2017
Data Science, Machine Learning, BI Explained in a Amazing Paragraphs

Guest blog post by Rubens Zimbres, PhD. This article brings images from my work modeling with Mathematica, my experience as a Business Analyst and also my doctorate lessons.
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medium.com June 20, 2015
Doing Data Science at Twitter

On June 17, 2015, I celebrated my two year #Twitterversary @Twitter. Looking back, the Data Science (short for DS) landscape at Twitter has shifted quite a bit:
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mattturck.com February 1, 2016
Is Big Data Still a Thing? (The 2016 Big Data Landscape)

In a tech startup industry that loves its shiny new objects, the term “Big Data” is in the unenviable position of sounding increasingly “3 years ago”. While Hadoop was created in 2006, interest in the concept of “Big Data” reached fever pitch sometime between 2011 and 2014.
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codeclimate.com June 5, 2014
5 Reasons to Use Protocol Buffers Instead of JSON For Your Next Service

Service-Oriented Architecture has a well-deserved reputation amongst Ruby and Rails developers as a solid approach to easing painful growth by extracting concerns from large applications. These new, smaller services typically still use Rails or Sinatra, and use JSON to communicate over HTTP.
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medium.com February 21, 2016
What’s Next in Computing?

The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial markets get a lot of attention. They tend to fluctuate unpredictably and sometimes wildly.
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forbes.com May 28, 2013
A Very Short History Of Data Science

The story of how data scientists became sexy is mostly the story of the coupling of the mature discipline of statistics with a very young one–computer science.
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alyssafrazee.com January 2, 2014
alyssa frazee

My sister is a senior undergraduate majoring in sociology. She just landed an awesome analyst job for next semester and was told she'll be using some R in the course of her work.
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forbes.com March 14, 2016
Top 10 Hot Big Data Technologies

As the big data analytics market rapidly expands to include mainstream customers, which technologies are most in demand and promise the most growth potential? The answers can be found in TechRadar: Big Data, Q1 2016, a new Forrester Research report evaluating the maturi
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lifehacker.com November 12, 2016
How to Lie to Yourself and Others With Statistics

Misusing statistics is one of the most powerful ways to lie. Normally, we teach you how to avoid misinterpreting statistics, but knowing how numbers are manipulated can help you spot when it happens.
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segment.com November 20, 2015
Our Engineering Team's Best Practices

Every month, Segment collects, transforms and routes over 50 billion API calls to hundreds of different business-critical applications. We’ve come a long way from the early days, where my co-founders and I were running just a handful of instances.
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huffingtonpost.com September 28, 2017
The 9 Best Free Online Big Data And Data Science Courses

Demand for skilled data scientists continues to be sky-high, with IBM recently predicting that there will be a 28% increase in the number of employed data scientists in the next two years.
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medium.com February 15, 2016
Evolution of the Netflix Data Pipeline

Our new Keystone data pipeline went live in December of 2015. In this article, we talk about the evolution of Netflix’s data pipeline over the years. This is the first of a series of articles about the new Keystone data pipeline. Netflix is a data-driven company.
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fastcompany.com September 26, 2017
Even This Data Guru Is Creeped Out By What Anonymous Location Data Reveals About Us

When Edward Snowden blew the lid off of the NSA’s mass surveillance program, he also revealed the extent of the government’s smartphone location tracking records.
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hackernoon.com November 14, 2016
Aspiring Data Scientists! Learn the basics with these 7 books!

In the last few years I spent a significant time with reading books about Data Science. I found these 7 books the best. These together are a very valuable source of learning the basics. It drives you through everything, you need to know.
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code.fb.com November 14, 2014
Introducing data center fabric, the next-generation Facebook data center network

The more than 1.35 billion people who use Facebook on an ongoing basis rely on a seamless, “always on” site performance.
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hbr.org March 16, 2017
A 5-Step Process to Get More Out of Your Organization’s Data

Daniel (not his real name) was a VP human resource manager at a Fortune 500 company. I asked him whether he had collected any data that could provide him with insights into systematic patterns. “I made sure we get exit interviews done with every single employee who is leaving us,” he replied.
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blog.insightdatascience.com October 3, 2017
What would be useful for aspiring data scientists to know?

Eric Ma has a PhD in Biological Engineering from MIT, and was an Insight Health Data Fellow in Summer 2017. Eric has since joined the Scientific Data Analysis team at Novartis, where he gets to pursue his dream role of doing data science in the context of the life sciences.
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segment.com May 17, 2017
Spotting a million dollars in your AWS account

Recently we shared the techniques we used to save more than a million dollars annually on our AWS bill.
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minimaxir.com October 2, 2015
How to Analyze Every Reddit Submission and Comment, in Seconds, for Free

While working on my statistical analysis of 142 million Reddit submissions last year, I had a surprising amount of trouble settings things up. It took a few hours to download the 40+ gigabytes of compressed data, and another few hours to parse the data and store in a local database.
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medium.freecodecamp.org January 26, 2017
I ranked every Intro to Data Science course on the internet, based on thousands of data points

A year ago, I dropped out of one of the best computer science programs in Canada. I started creating my own data science master’s program using online resources. I realized that I could learn everything I needed through edX, Coursera, and Udacity instead.
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blog.bigml.com February 28, 2013
Data, Data, Data: Thousands of Public Data Sources

We love data, big and small and we are always on the lookout for interesting datasets. Over the last two years, the BigML team has compiled a long list of sources of data that anyone can use.
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kdnuggets.com April 3, 2018
Every Intro to Data Science Course on the Internet, Ranked

A year ago, I dropped out of one of the best computer science programs in Canada. I started creating my own data science master’s program using online resources. I realized that I could learn everything I needed through edX, Coursera, and Udacity instead.
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medium.freecodecamp.org February 12, 2018
Aspiring data scientist? Master these fundamentals.

Data science is an exciting, fast-moving field to become involved in. There’s no shortage of demand for talented, analytically-minded individuals. Companies of all sizes are hiring data scientists, and the role provides real value across a wide range of industries and applications.
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blog.districtdatalabs.com December 29, 2016
Data Exploration with Python, Part 1

Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is an important pillar of data science, a critical step required to complete every project regardless of the domain or the type of data you are working with.
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thenewinquiry.com October 9, 2014
View From Nowhere

On the cultural ideology of Big Data. “What science becomes in any historical era depends on what we make of it” —Sandra Harding, Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? (1991)
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hbr.org June 30, 2017
Root Out Bias from Your Decision-Making Process

We’ve all experienced the disappointment of an important decision not going our way.
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thinkgrowth.org March 31, 2017
The Startup Founder’s Guide to Analytics

You need analytics. I’m very confident of that, because today, everyone needs analytics. Not just product, not just marketing, not just finance… sales, fulfillment, everyone at a startup needs analytics today.
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economist.com August 13, 2015
We’ll see you, anon

FREQUENT visitors to the Hustler Club, a gentlemen’s entertainment venue in New York, could not have known that they would become part of a debate about anonymity in the era of “big data”.
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venturebeat.com April 1, 2014
Data scientists need their own GitHub. Here are four of the best options

Imagine if a company’s three highly valued data scientists can happily work together without duplicating each other’s efforts and can easily call up the ingredients and results of each other’s previous work. That day has come.
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washingtonpost.com December 13, 2016
Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump

Alarmed that decades of crucial climate measurements could vanish under a hostile Trump administration, scientists have begun a feverish attempt to copy reams of government data onto independent servers in hopes of safeguarding it from any political interference.
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opensource.com November 22, 2016
Python versus R for machine learning and data analysis

Machine learning and data analysis are two areas where open source has become almost the de facto license for innovative new tools.
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code.fb.com June 2, 2015
Recommending items to more than a billion people

The growth of data on the web has made it harder to employ many machine learning algorithms on the full data sets.
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auth0.com March 23, 2016
Introduction to Immutable.js and Functional Programming Concepts

Functional programming has been on the rise the last few years. Languages such as Clojure, Scala and Haskell have brought to the eyes of imperative programmers interesting techniques that can provide significant benefits in certain use cases. Immutable.
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