Publications by Murtaza Haider
Data Science Boot Camp
If you live in or near Toronto, are interested in learning about data science, and can spare Friday afternoons, then you are in luck. I am offering a Data Science Boot Camp at Ryerson University in collaboration with IBM’s BigDataUniversity.com. The Boot Camp is largely based on the contents of my recently published book, Getting Started with ...
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Data Science Boot Camp completed at Ryerson University
I am pleased to update you on the Data Science Boot Camp we ran at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University in Toronto in collaboration with IBM’s www.BigDataUniversity.com. The 9-week long Boot Camp concluded on July 15. We received a total of 1,137 registrations and the attendance ranged between 100 to 150 participants each ...
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Data Science Boot Camp completed at Ryerson University
I am pleased to update you on the Data Science Boot Camp we ran at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University in Toronto in collaboration with IBM’s www.BigDataUniversity.com. The 9-week long Boot Camp concluded on July 15. We received a total of 1,137 registrations and the attendance ranged between 100 to 150 participants each ...
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The collaborative innovation landscape in data science
Computing platforms should be like Lego. That is, they should provide the fundamental building blocks and enable the users’ imagination to innovate. The latest issue of Stata Journal exemplifies how Stata and, by the same account, R provide the platform for the users to innovate beyond the innate capacity of the core group responsible for softw...
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The collaborative innovation landscape in data science
Computing platforms should be like Lego. That is, they should provide the fundamental building blocks and enable the users’ imagination to innovate. The latest issue of Stata Journal exemplifies how Stata and, by the same account, R provide the platform for the users to innovate beyond the innate capacity of the core group responsible for softw...
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Book Review: Getting Started With Data Science
I PROGRAMMER’s Kay Ewbank’s reviews Getting Started with Data Science: Making Sense of Data with Analytics.By Kay EwbankIf you’ve enjoyed books such as Freakonomics or Outliers, you’ll feel at home reading this book as it uses a similar approach; take an interesting question such as ‘Does the higher price of cigarettes deter smoking?�...
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Book Review: Getting Started With Data Science
I PROGRAMMER’s Kay Ewbank’s reviews Getting Started with Data Science: Making Sense of Data with Analytics.By Kay EwbankIf you’ve enjoyed books such as Freakonomics or Outliers, you’ll feel at home reading this book as it uses a similar approach; take an interesting question such as ‘Does the higher price of cigarettes deter smoking?�...
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So you want to be a data scientist
From HuffingtonPostThe New York Times made it look so easy. Take a few courses in data science and a web-based startup will readily pay top dollars for your newly acquired skills.Since the McKinsey Global Institute reported on the impending shortage of data crunchers, the wanna be data scientists are searching for learning opportunities in bi...
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Five Questions about Data Science
From Safari Books Online (https://www.safaribooksonline.com/blog/2016/02/10/data-science-qa/) —Recently, we were able to ask five questions of Murtaza Haider, about the new book from IBM Press called “Getting Started with Data Science: Making Sense of Data with Analytics.” Below, the author talks about the benefits of data science in today...
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The X-Factors: Where 0 means 1
Hadley Wickham in a recent blog post mentioned that “Factors have a bad rap in R because they often turn up when you don’t want them.” I believe Factors are an even bigger concern. They not only turn up where you don’t want them, but they also turn things around when you don’t want them to.Consider the following example where I present...
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