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  • Big data can now tell how badly you drive, and if you ride

    New algorithms can tell if you ride the bus, and how bad you drive Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Helsin­ki in Fin­land have devel­oped algo­rithms they say are the best yet for deter­min­ing how mobile phone users are get­ting around town — walk­ing, dri­ving, tak­ing the sub­way or oth­er­wise — by… http://flip.it/hxozG…

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  • Raw: advanced data visualization via cut and paste

    New tool lets you visualize just about anything in 5 minutes (maybe less) Derrick Harris, gigaom.com There’s a new web tool called Raw that makes it real­ly easy to do some advanced visu­al­iza­tions on data in just a few min­utes. (Hat tip to Nathan Yau of Flow­ing­Da­ta for point­ing it out.) The way it works…

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  • The cancer social network

    New algorithm maps cancer cells like nodes on a social network Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Often times, the best way to to get a sense of your data is to look at it. A bunch of of num­bers or words might not mean any­thing sit­ting with­in a table, but they start to make a lot more…

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  • How to hire a data scientist

    How to hire data scientists and get hired as one Derrick Harris, gigaom.com As you might have heard before if you read McK­in­sey reports, the New York Times or just about any tech­nol­o­gy news site, data sci­en­tists are in high demand. Heck, the Har­vard Busi­ness Review called it the sex­i­est job of the 21st cen­tu­r……

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  • Data hero: visualization startup cloud based analysis

    Visualization startup Datahero opens its doors and delivers data analysis for the masses Derrick Harris, gigaom.com When I first met Data­hero Co-founder Chris Neu­mann a year ago, I was pret­ty excit­ed about what he claimed his new com­pa­ny was going to do. Essen­tial­ly, he told me, it was going to offer a sim­ple, cloud-based data…

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