DT285/DT286 Probability & Statistics Class Cancelled

Hi folks,

The DIT networks have crashed this evening and so it is not possible for students to log on to lab machines. For this reason the DT285/DT286 lab class will be cancelled this evening. Aoife will, however, be present in the Aungier St. lab at 18:30 to answer any questions people have about the assignment.

Apologies for the short notice.

Brian.

Nice Interview with Hal Varian, Chief Economist for Google

techtarget.com had a nice interview a little while ago with Hal Varian, chief economist for Google. In the interview Varian discusses the role of data scientists. I particularly like the question where he lists the skills required for a data scientist:

"Database and data manipulation or how to shuffle data around and move things from place to place; statistics and statistical analysis; machine learning; visualization, or how to present data in a meaningful way; and communication or being able to describe what’s going on."

This is exactly the skillset we are creating on the Msc in Computing (Data Analytics) - in fact the skills almost uncannliy match our module names (http://www.comp.dit.ie/dt285/modules.html)!

The full interview is available at:

http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/news/1280099135/Googles-chief-economist-examines-the-data-scientist-factor

Probability & Statistical Inference Remains in Aungier St

The DT285/DT286 Probability & Statistical Inference will remain in the Aungier St 1-005 Lab tonight (Tuesday 15th of November).

See you there.

Google Prediction API

Google officially launched their Prediction API recently. This is a set of machine learning tools made available as a cloud-based API and the plan at Google is that people will use it to build "smart applications". There's some really nice stuff in there and it appears to make it fairly straight-forward to deploy ML based applications.

More details are available at: http://code.google.com/apis/predict/ and there's a video of their launch event here. It's also worth taking a good look around all of the Google APIs at http://code.google.com/apis/explorer, there's some good stuff in there.

Statistics Class In Aungier St 1-005 Lab

On Tuesday 8th of November Probability & Statistical Inference will return to the Aungier St 1-005 Lab for SAS Enterprise Guide work.

See you there.

Statistics Class Remains in Kevin St.

Probability & Statistical Inference class will remain in the ground floor Kevin St. lecture room (GA-028) this evening (Tuesday Nov 1st).