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Ask HN: What journals and blogs should I be reading to become a data scientist?
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#3http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ http://blog.okcupid.com/ https://www.facebook.com/data/ http://www.pornhub.com/insights/
A recently launched HN style community [0] is pretty good as well
Re: Ask HN: What journals and blogs should I be reading to become a data scientist?
#4Have you joined/visited http://datatau.com? Fun HN-style community site.
Re: Ask HN: What journals and blogs should I be reading to become a data scientist?
#5Becoming a data scientist isn't a matter of reading journals and blogs. You can get a sense of the field and what is required by reading those sites but becoming a data scientist is years of hard work.
You need to develop serious skills in at least 4 of the following disciplines. Statistical analysis
RDMS query development
NoSQL databases
Machine learning
Natural Language Processing
Web crawling and data harvesting techniques
Programming to access data APIs
Web development
Data visualization
Systems in business that generate data including, CRM, ERP and more
Geospatial data systems
Each of these areas would have its own set of resources both formal and informal.
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#6Re: Ask HN: What journals and blogs should I be reading to become a data scientist?
#7Not a journal or blog, but I highly recommend Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course on Coursera.
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#8Dipshit Buzzwords Quarterly
Data Mining, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and other euphemisms for being pretentiously lazy
Amazon Principal Engineer Tenets
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#9Seen on twitter today:
https://twitter.com/jeremyjarvis/status/428848527226437632
"A data scientist is a statistician who lives in San Francisco."
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#10You know, I absolutely see where the poster is coming from, and the suggestions look helpful so far, but the question might as well read: What journals and blogs should I be reading to become a Cardiothoracic Surgeon?
(though hopefully nobody bleeds out on a table when someone misconstrues statistical data)
We've lived through an amazing time where one could learn by doing, and talented people have been able to compete without the benefit of formal education (myself included), but in my opinion those days are numbered.
I've personally observed respected PhD statisticians stumble on the type of problems a data scientist is expected to address. The combination of complex software and often counterintuitive mathematics makes this an imposing field for all but perhaps the top one percent of practitioners. Most everybody else needs to really hit the books for a few years, in a formal setting.
With that pre-coffee rant out of the way, I'm looking forward to finding some new sources here myself. So, in that spirit, thanks for the question.