Recommended blogs and reading

Since the tt never really shared with us the information we needed to be able to understand what was happening with le vision du twenty-twenty, I've been doing a lot of reading out here in the wild.  Now, it's not like you want to go home each night after a day slogging away in Cube Hell (but even that is better than "open space") to do the research and reading I have.

Some writers are better than others and there's a shitton of messy communication out there.  That's because we're only now seeing the formalization of the classification  of "data science."  I've been doing a lot of reading about data science, who defines it what and how.  There are two blogs so far which stand out.  One, the first one which has some of the best articles about what things are, and what tools need to be used.  Frankly, I'm going to be re-evaluating my cover letters, and trigger words based upon a couple of their articles.

Data Science Central
Dato Blog


I'm going to focus on some of the articles in Data Science Central because the career impacts are significant and these guys have some great writers and thinkers.

16 analytic disciplines compared to data science
Four easy steps to becoming a Data Scientist

.'Big Data' is that everything we do is increasingly leaving a digital trace (or data), which we (and others) can use and analyse. Big Data therefore refers to that data being collected and our ability to make use of it.

Some organizations ask which blogs you are reading.  Be prepared.  This could also be an interview question.  I also follow:

R Bloggers (and if I get into Pyton, then PuPPY would be listed, but I don't work in Python at the moment, so I'm just following their newsletter)

Ninja Metrics - gaming metrics - very interesting and huge data sets

Game Analytics