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The irony is nearly perfect: an essay warning that AI tells leaders what they want to hear rewrites research until it tells the author what he wants to hear.

The founders of Exo ghosted the dev community and went closed-source. Nobody has heard from them. I wish people would stop recommending Exo (a tribute to their marketing) and check…

How does the $4.5M fine compare to revenue generated by the scam? Unless there is jail time, these fines are just a slap on the wrist, and are often factored into budgets as “costs…

Amazing book! Also Diaspora! Great mind expanding hard science fiction. Highly recommended!

Galvanize, Inc. ( http://www.galvanize.com ) San Francisco, CA | Denver, CO | Seattle, WA We are looking for a data scientists and software engineers with teaching experience to jo…

Galvanize, Inc. ( http://www.galvanize.com ) San Francisco, CA | Denver, CO | Seattle, WA We are looking for a data scientists and software engineers with teaching experience to jo…

Galvanize, Inc. ( http://www.galvanize.com ) San Francisco, CA | Denver, CO | Seattle, WA We are looking for a data scientists and software engineers with teaching experience to jo…

Thanks for the mention, Sonali! One of the founders of Zipfian Academy here, happy to answer any questions you might have about the program.

For those that are looking for a SF-based data science course that focuses specifically on industry workflows, check out: http://www.zipfianacademy.com/

For those looking to make the transition to data science, another option is Zipfian Academy ( http://www.zipfianacademy.com/ ). No PhD required.

There is a comprehensive list of online resources that we put together on our blog: http://blog.zipfianacademy.com/post/46864003608/a-practical-...

We apologize that it was not more clear on the site, but we do partner with many companies throughout the program who give guest lectures and provide perspectives from the industry…

Ryan, co-founder of Zipfian Academy here. Completely agree -- data scientists can spend up to 90% of their time cleaning and getting their data in the proper format for analysis. T…

Platfora is doing some interesting work with interactive, in-memory BI for Hadoop. They essentially do away with the traditional DW/ETL model and create ephemeral in-memory 'lenses…

I second this -- the Unix System Administration series ( http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/decal/2008-spring/advanced/ ) and the DeCal classes in general were some of the most rewarding …

Too bad the GPS is still worthless.