State of Data #111

Top Read

‘How can you integrate ‘top-down’ hypothesis-driven and ‘bottom-up’ data-driven modeling approaches into one unified mathematical framework? ‘

Analysis

Visualizations of the oDesk“oConomy”

Big Data

Intimacy of Data – Do we need a new model for cutting-edge insights

Data Science

Music Data Science Hackathon Winners and what they did

DBMS

SQL myth that refuses to die

Idea

The good and bad of the Median

“consider a database with missing values for “number of children”, which (one would expect!) would always be an integer.  Substituting the mean for missings may result in observations sporting “1.2” children.  This is not a problem with the median.”

Learning

Linked Open Data – five-star format in Publishing data

Visualization

Visualizing 112 years of Olympic with D3 and Python

etc

• Little Book of ‘R’ in GitHub
• ‘Unprecedented look at the creative process of Infographic Storyteller Nicholas Feltron’
• How Big Data Became So Big
  
• Curiosity Data Transmission Details