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Data science is progressing fast, but how much are we really keeping up in development? Still just statistics? Come on!!!

Data science skills map Shared with Dropbox

Well researched, Mr. Press! (Eagerly waiting for DevIntel's coverage on Forbes by the same author)

A Very Short History Of Data Science The story of how data scientists became sexy is mostly the story of the coupling of the mature discipline of statistics with a very young one--computer science. The term “Data Science” has emerged only recently to specifically designate a new profession that is expected to make sense of the vast [....

NetMob May 1-3, 2013 in Cambridge, MA looks at analyzing mobile phone datasets for D4D intelligence

NetMob 2013 - The main conference on the scientific analysis of mobile phone datasets With a special event on the Data for Development (D4D) challenge. "I can't say how impressed I was with the quality and quantity of the submissions." "There is some incredibly good work in here."

Interesting article...

Solving Big-Data Bottleneck | HMS In a study that represents a potential cultural shift in how basic science research can be conducted, researchers from Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School and London Business School have demonstrated that a crowdsourcing platform pioneered in the commercial sector can solve a complex bio...

And we are at the cutting edge of this Digital Tide...

Data – The next frontier of Development | End Poverty How is the digital tide taking care of the digital divide? Do you remember the digital divide? At the start of the new millennium, there was global concern that poor countries, especially in Africa, would be twice left out: economically and also technologically. Fortunately, the digital divide never...

A predictive model outdoes all the election pundits put together!

Triumph of the Nerds: Nate Silver Wins in 50 States Barack Obama may have comfortably won re-election in the electoral college, and squeaked a victory in the popular vote. But here is the absolute, undoubted winner of this election: Nate Silve

"The Uncertainty is what makes the Prediction business so big."

Polls, lies and 'the prediction business' - CNN.com These are the days of uncertainty. The pollsters tell us so. Yet jumping to conclusions has never been so popular.

Interesting read.

Kids Understand the Bayesian Inference Better Than Adults Do Everyone who spends time with children knows how incredibly much they learn. But how can babies and young children possibly learn so much so quickly? In a recent article in Science, I describe a promising new theory about how babies and young children learn and the slew of research that...

Does anyone know an Indian/Chinese/Brazilian healthcare organization that wants to do better analytics of its data and create predictive models of health outcomes? We could do it for FREE!

The frontier of AI - how can we use all this power to serve the bottom billion?

IBM's Watson -- a Smartphone Assistant To Put Siri to Shame? - AAPL, BRK-A, IBM, NUAN - Foolish Blog IBM's Watson -- a Smartphone Assistant To Put Siri to Shame?ByBA McKenna- September 15, 2012| Tickers:AAPL,BRK-A,IBM,NUAN|0 CommentsEmailPrintBA is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinions of our bloggers and are not formally edited.IfIBM(NYSE:IBM)has its...

An interesting case study

Journalist uses Palantir to investigate illicit Human Tissue Trafficking | Palantir AshlingDATE:08.02.2012Palantir donated software to theInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists(ICIJ) in support of a four-part investigative series on the global trade and illegal trafficking of human tissue. ICIJ broke the story at the Google Ideas Summit on Illicit Networks on July 17...

A PGM (Probabilistic Graphical Model) based medical diagnostic algorithm - imagine a mobile enabled community health worker in remote India accessing this algorithm via an API to diagnose patients!

A Practical Computer Program that Diagnoses Diseases in Actu Google Tech Talk April 23, 2009 ABSTRACT A Practical Computer Program that Diagnoses Diseases in Actual Patients, presented by Carlos Feder. Several so calle...