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How Many Data Scientists Are There?

I’ve seen a lot of articles lately about “Big Data” and the looming “talent gap.” This article [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304723304577365700368073674.html] from the Wall Street Journal is a good example. It cites a McKinsey estimate that states that we will need 1.5 million more managers

Predicting the NBA Finals with R

This is the initial post about the algorithm. See updates 1 [http://viksalgorithms.blogspot.com/2012/06/predicting-nba-playoff-games- results.html], 2 [http://viksalgorithms.blogspot.com/2012/06/nba-playoff- predictions-update-2-and.html], and 3 [http://viksalgorithms.blogspot.com/2012/06/nba-playoff-predictions- update-3-4-2.html] for more. The algorithm is currently 4-2 in the

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Resources for Learning Statistics and Data Mining

There are an abundance of resources on the web to help novices teach themselves statistics and machine learning, but they can be hard to track down. Below are a few resources that have helped me in the past. 1. Khan Academy [http://www.khanacademy.org/#statistics] has a series of