Tag Archives: data analysis

Opening Up Data

Posted on May 12, 2015 by way0utwest

Tim O’Reilly has been an advocate of open data access and standards for some time, especially from governments. He’s pushed for more interoperability and certainly more accessability from all sorts of groups. He gave an interview earlier this year to LinuxVoice where … Continue reading →

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Microsoft and R

Posted on March 19, 2015 by way0utwest

Microsoft purchased Revolution Analytics recently, a commercial company that works with the R programming language. This seems to be a decision to improve the analytics and analysis offerings from Microsoft. I’ve heard this will be incorporated into their Machine Learning offering, but … Continue reading →

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Small Experiments in Data

Posted on March 17, 2015 by way0utwest

Amsterdam is trying to become a smart city, with technology and investments being made in ways that will (hopefully) improve the city living experience for residents. There are a lot of items mentioned in the article, but one of the … Continue reading →

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Computational Biologist

Posted on March 16, 2015 by way0utwest

I saw this job in a NYT times piece and was intrigued to see the mention of a computational biologist at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center. This is a job that couldn’t have existed in past, as throughout most of history we … Continue reading →

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