Become a data science prodigy with these online courses that are 95% off

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Love doesn’t make the world go ’round — data does.

In most — if not all — industries, people who have a profound understanding of big data and analytics are indispensable. Businesses generate data faster than they can make sense of it, and as a result, they’re in desperate need of teams to help them scrutinize every bit of it to uncover patterns and trends. No machine can interpret large data sets, not even Sophia the Robot. Read more…

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Firefly is an iPhone case that promises to improve your cellular data or Wi-Fi connection

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2017 Miles: Everywhere we went this year and everywhere we’ll go

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When you sit and think about your year and your accomplishments, how do quantify your experiences? You certainly can’t count the number of times you laughed or smiled or went to your friend’s house for a party. Unless you can, in which case you should really pursue a career in statistics.

You can, however, count the miles you traveled by way of Uber. Taking an Uber has become second nature on nights out. A drive to the airport in an uberX, a fancy night out by way of an UberBlack, or a quick trip to a friend’s house in an uberMoto, the app has become ingrained in our global consciousness and is the gold standard in transportation.  Read more…

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Facebook has a giant, Europe-sized legal problem

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Europe continues to be a giant pain in Facebook’s app. 

Germany and France this week both hammered Facebook for its data practices, though in different ways. 

Germany’s competition regulator declared on Monday that Facebook is using its dominance in the personal data market to squelch competition and took issue with Facebook’s tracking of users outside of its social network.

On Tuesday, France’s privacy regulator took issue with an entirely different part of Facebook — messaging service WhatsAppFrance threatened to fine Facebook for taking user data from WhatsApp without user consent.

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Inflect raises $3M seed round to make buying internet infrastructure easier

 Inflect, a startup that wants to make it easier for businesses to buy their own internet infrastructure, today announced that it has raised a $3 million seed funding round. The service, which is still in preview, provides business with the necessary data to make their purchasing decisions when they go out and look for their own data center space, networking services and exchange… Read More

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Google Trends now surfaces data from News, Images, YouTube and Shopping verticals

 Google announced today it’s expanding the focus of its Google Trends service – the site that lets anyone track what the world’s web searchers are looking for in both real time and non-real time. The service now includes data from more Google products beyond web search, the company says, with the addition of search data from verticals like Google News, Shopping, Images and… Read More

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Learn how to become a master of data analytics

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There are many time-honored ways to impress an audience: do an elaborate song and dance number, hide a free car coupon under everyone’s chair, give someone an award and then announce halfway through that you gave it to the wrong person (accidentally, of course. You’re not a monster!) But there’s a much more reliable way to impress an audience: data. 

Even if you’re not big on zeros and ones, data is the best way to effectively make your point. Whether you’re a data science expert or a complete beginner, you can easily become a data superstar with the Data Visualization with Tableau Desktop 9 Bundle. Read more…

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How data helps medical professionals implement patient personalisation

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In recent years, the scientific community has come to think about cancer — and cancer treatment — differently.

Whereas in past decades, cancer was diagnosed, classified and treated according to the specific types of tissues it affected — breast cancer, for example, has traditionally been treated with drugs developed specifically for tumours in the breast — modern medicine takes a decidedly more personalised approach.

Today, explains Dr Warren Kaplan, the Chief of Informatics at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, cancer is thought of as a disease of DNA, rather than something that easily fits into “buckets” based on where in the tissue it originates. Read more…

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Your smartphone could help power future cancer cures

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In the field of potentially life-saving cancer research, data is more than just a buzzy term deployed by marketers — it’s a fundamental part of the search for answers.

Computing power, says Dr Warren Kaplan, the Chief of Informatics at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, is quickly emerging as a precious resource in the quest to solve cancer and other complex diseases.

DreamLab, a mobile app and initiative dreamed up by The Vodafone Foundation Australia, is just one example of how data can make a difference. Instead of fundraising in the most literal sense, the app collects a different type of donation: your data. Read more…

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