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by Kristina Chodorow
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by C.J. Date
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by Ian Robinson, Jim Webber, Emil Eifrem
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by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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by Steve Suehring
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by MC Brown
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by Tom White
Third Edition
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by Jonathan Gennick
Third Edition
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by Stuart Gripman, Susan Prosser
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by Alan Beaulieu
Second Edition
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by Anthony Molinaro
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by Steven Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl
Fifth Edition
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by Eric Sammer
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by Lynn Beighley
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by Jason Rutherglen, Dean Wampler, Edward Capriolo
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by Baron Schwartz, Vadim Tkachenko, Peter Zaitsev
Third Edition
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by Lars George
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by Seyed M.M. "Saied" Tahaghoghi, Hugh E. Williams

Data News

Visualization of the Week: Real-time Wikipedia edits

By Jenn Webb
May 15, 2013

Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi have put together an addictive visualization of real-time edits on Wikipedia, mapped across the world. Every time an edit is made, the user’s location and the entry they edited are listed along with a corresponding …

Big data, cool kids

By Edd Dumbill
May 14, 2013

The big data world is a confusing place. We’re no longer in a market dominated mostly by relational databases, and the alternatives have multiplied in a baby boom of diversity. These child prodigies of the data scene show great promise …

Genomics and Privacy at the Crossroads

By James Turner
May 13, 2013

Two weeks ago, I had the privilege to attend the 2013 Genomes,�Environments�and Traits conference in Boston, as a participant of Harvard Medical School’s Personal Genome Project. Several hundreds of us attended the conference, eager to learn what new breakthroughs might …

Evaluating machine learning systems: Kaggle’s not enough

By Beau Cronin
May 11, 2013

There is a tremendous amount of commercial attention on machine learning (ML) methods and applications. This includes product and content recommender systems, predictive models for churn and lead scoring, systems to assist in medical diagnosis, social network sentiment analysis, and …

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Data Experts

Matthew Russell Matthew Russell is a computer scientist from middle Tennessee; and serves Digital Reasoning Systems as the Director of Advanced Technology. Hacking and writing are two activities essential to his renaissance man regimen.

Stafford Vaughan Stafford Vaughan Stafford Vaughan started computer programming at an early age. In 2005 he joined CustomWare, a professional services organization that specializes in the technology of fast-growing software companies, and personally established the training departments of Atlassian, Zendesk, and GoodData. In 2013, Stafford joined one of the world's leading consumer electronics…

Shyam Seshadri Shyam Seshadri Shyam Seshadri is the owner / CEO of Fundoo Solutions (http://www.befundoo.com), where he splits his time between working on innovative and exciting new products for the Indian markets, and consulting about and running workshops on AngularJS. Prior to Fundoo Solutions, Shyam completed his MBA from the prestigious Indian School of…

Brian K. Jones Brian K. Jones is an infrastructure architect, and system/network/database administrator, and co-author of Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two .

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