Launching our Data Science and Big Data Track
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Launching our Data Science and Big Data Track
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#2This is a cool idea, but I wish everything wasn't so 'big data' oriented. Most people will never work with big data. Instead of teaching me map/reduce, how about teaching me how to model with a mixture distribution? Teach me how to master small data and then scale those up to big data when and if need be.
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#3This is a cool idea, but I wish everything wasn't so 'big data' oriented. Most people will never work with big data. Instead of teaching me map/reduce, how about teaching me how to model with a mixture distribution? Teach me how to master small data and then scale those up to big data when and if need be.
Cloudera seems to be sponsoring this class and both instructors are from there. I think that explains why the class has a "Big Data in Hadoop" theme, since that's what Cloudera does.
(as a comic aside to the buzzwordiness of "Big data", I saw a tweet yesterday that lamented rising use of the term "Hyper data". Which was followed by a reply about approaching "Ludicrous data", with a link to Spaceballs' ludicrous speed scene)
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#4This is a cool idea, but I wish everything wasn't so 'big data' oriented. Most people will never work with big data. Instead of teaching me map/reduce, how about teaching me how to model with a mixture distribution? Teach me how to master small data and then scale those up to big data when and if need be.
I would also like something like this. I deal with data in my job all the time, everything from surveys to web analytics to customer data, but I only have a foggy notion how to work with it. As a result, most of the output is fairly simple, obvious metrics, but it would be nice to get a few online courses on how to do basic stats, construct surveys, do UI and A/B testing, etc.
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Re: Launching our Data Science and Big Data Track
#6This is a cool idea, but I wish everything wasn't so 'big data' oriented. Most people will never work with big data. Instead of teaching me map/reduce, how about teaching me how to model with a mixture distribution? Teach me how to master small data and then scale those up to big data when and if need be.
You might like Data Analysis from Coursera.
https://www.coursera.org/course/dataanalysis
From the post it looks like Udacity too is working on courses that address this.
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#7It seems that the majority of Big Data/Data Science applications are designed to give advertisers insight into things I don't really want them to have insight into. That really sucks, because the technology is cool, but I don't want to help build that kind of future. It's kind of analogous to how I feel about Computer Vision: there are a handful of legitimate purposes for it, but most applications of the technology fall somewhere between "I don't like that idea" to "that's totally unethical".
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#8Ugh, Hadoop.
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#9Most Udacity courses use Python, but seems this data science series will use R. Python also has lots of data analysis tool. Just wonder why they are choosing R.
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#10It seems that the majority of Big Data/Data Science applications are designed to give advertisers insight into things I don't really want them to have insight into. That really sucks, because the technology is cool, but I don't want to help build that kind of future. It's kind of analogous to how I feel about Computer Vision: there are a handful of legitimate purposes for it, but most applications of the technology f…
Why not grab some public domain data sets and build something on that? There's some really nice sources that can be discovered at data.gov and other places. Much of it could be used to inform and educate the public. You probably could build a small business or consultancy if you choose correctly.