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Data Scientist Skill Set
O’Reilly released a free downloadable report a while back that presents the results of a survey of Data Scientists across the industry – circa 250 respondents. The report looks at a list of skills and classifies Data Scientists into 4 main categories: Data Businessperson Data Creative Data Developer Data Researcher Under each of these headings…
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Pen based Productivity Tools – The Chronodex
Back on the subject of paper based tools today as one of the tools that I use has just had its 2015 release – the Chronodex by Patrick Ng. This is released in two halves and is available as a download for the first half of 2015. (You will need a printer after downloading and…
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How are you Networking with People
People spend a lot of time behind electronic devices these days communicating with others through various forms of apps and social media. Have you ever stopped to think how many people you have actually spoken to face to face rather than through a GUI? I thought it may be useful to call out a Networking…
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The Data Scientists Toolbox Visualisation
Having found myself with a bit of spare time over the Christmas Holidays, I drew the below visualisation based on the Coursera course on “The Data Scientist’s Toolbox” based on some of the key takeaways I noted down from the course. Its a bit like the show “Catchphrase” Say what you see….. Click the drawing…
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Playing a Game with Innovation and Thinking
I have been looking at ways to assist me with Innovation and Thinking and looking outside of the box. Lots of different methodologies exist and there is no right or wrong way to what method to use or when to apply it. After studying several methods in this arena and investigating, reading and learning some of…
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DevOps ES2014 – Slides/Videos
A couple of months old now, but still a great source of information from the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2014 that was run earlier this year. These provide a great view into how other organisations are using DevOps within their business and in some cases its OpsDev Videos on a YouTube Channel DevOps Enterprise Summit 2014 –…
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In-depth Introduction to Machine Learning
There is an excellent set of videos covering an In-depth introduction to Machine Learning spread over a number of videos and PDFs links below. Chapter 1: Introduction (slides, playlist) Opening Remarks and Examples (18:18) Supervised and Unsupervised Learning (12:12) Chapter 2: Statistical Learning (slides, playlist) Statistical Learning and Regression (11:41) Curse of Dimensionality and Parametric…
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Data Science and Information Theory
I have recently been asked a question by a colleague “what’s the difference between Data Science and Information Theory?” Here is my viewpoint on this. Information Theory Wikipedia states “Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics, electrical engineering, and computer science involving the quantification of information. Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon…
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Learning Data Science
As a Architect I am always looking into ways of working with new technologies, innovations and fields. One of this is Data Science and as such I am currently undertaking a set of courses to get an understanding of the field of Data Science. Having a level of understanding will allow me to work more…
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A formula for Innovation
I have been looking into innovation and what drives innovation for some time now, whilst bring it and show it in my roles. I started to look at what innovation actually is and came across various equations for innovation that people have tried to create. These equations work in various ways, from consultancies on how…
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Max Hemingway 