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By: How JISC CETIS dashboard social activity around blog posts using a splash of data science JISC CETIS MASHe

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:26:49 +0000

[…] To put this work into context it aligns with my dabbling’s as a data scientist. A data scientist … is someone who: wants to know what the question should be; embodies a combination of curiosity, data gathering skills, statistical and modelling expertise and strong communication skills. … The working environment for a data scientist should allow them to self-provision data, rather than having to rely on what is formally supported in the organisation, to enable them to be inquisitive and creative. [See this post by Adam Cooper for the origins of this definition] […]

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What I’ve starred this month: May 28, 2012 JISC CETIS MASHe — Mon, 28 May 2012 19:07:38 +0000

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Archives Hub › Big Data: what’s it all about? — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:09:17 +0000

[…] or, rather more facetiously, the “business analyst who lives in Califorina” (Adam Cooper’s blog). This concept of a data scientist was revisited throughout the Eduserv symposium. At one point it […]

By: adam

adam — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:11:11 +0000

Some discussion (lapsing into polemic at times) on “big data” as terminology may be found on Curt Monash’s blog, for example at http://www.dbms2.com/2012/01/08/big-data-terminology-and-positioning/ (see also a link in this to a previous rant that seems to have rather goaded a Forrester analyst).

By: Analytics Reconnoitre: Notes on R in education and industry JISC CETIS MASHe

Analytics Reconnoitre: Notes on R in education and industry JISC CETIS MASHe — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:49:05 +0000

[…] required. As part of the Analytics Reconnoitre Adam Cooper (JISC CETIS) has already published Analytics and Big Data – Reflections from the Teradata Universe Conference 2012 and Making Sense of “Analytics”.The Analytics and Big Data post is an excellent summary of the […]

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Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:53:15 +0000

[…] Teradata Blog Post From Teradata – Google Blog Search: As part of our current work on investigating trends in analytics and in contextualising it to […]