The presentation below is from the DataEDGE 2013 conference sponsored by the UC Berkeley School of Information – “Data Just Right: A Practical Introduction to Data Science Skills,” featuring Michael ...

Data science: many skills -- About data -- Identifying data problems -- Getting started with R -- Follow the data -- Rows and columns -- Beer, farms, and peas -- Sample in a jar -- Big data? Big deal!

Success in business and science means making smart decisions. And those require the kind of information you can only get from sophisticated data analysis. It’s a growing field with huge opportunities.

"Data-based careers continue to be among the best career choices according to many different ranking systems. The CareerCast.com 2019 report ranks data scientist as the #1 career, statistician as #2, ...

Recall that R is a statistical programming language—a language designed to do things like t-tests, regression, and so on. The core of R was developed during the 1970s and since then, many libraries ...

In today’s economy, businesses and institutions rely on data analysis to reach their goals. Data collection is made possible by technological advancements, but insightful data analysis requires human ...

Terabytes are so yesterday. Today, we're talking petabytes and exabytes. That is Big Data and it's invaluable to companies everywhere. The problem is, there aren't enough people who know how to mine ...

Delivering the keynote address, Dr. Pallab Changkakoti, Head of the Department of Statistics, KSCJ, emphasized the need for developing a data-driven mindset and the role of SPSS in promoting ...