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Hot Jobs in Tech: Technology As An Individual Economy
First off, I wanted to share this infographic created by KForce, one of the staffing agencies that handles large corporate accounts. Take a moment and look it over. You’ll probably notice that architect positions and mobile developers are in high … Continue reading
Association Rules and Data Mining With RapidMiner
A good association rule set never fails to impress me. I love the hypothetical made concrete, the hunch turned into fact – attributes become relationships, numbers become involvement between tuples, fields, and tables. All in all, we live in interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Data Science, Education, Information Technology
Tagged Association rule learning, datamining, Graphical user interface, IBM, Java, Math, RapidMiner, WEKA
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Data Mining for the Masses and Correlation Matrices
I’m working through Data Mining for the Masses (yes, at the same time as I’m working through Machine Learning for R.) I’ve found that hitting the same topic from multiple angles helps to embed the concepts and lessons much more … Continue reading
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Tagged data mining, databases, IBM, Machine Learning, RapidMiner, SAP, SAP AG, SPSS
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Data Analysis With R
I’ve been working my way through the Machine Learning for Hackers book from O’Reilly press (which really should be named R for Machine Learning), and just finished a small data analysis project in R. While the syntax is a little … Continue reading
The Penn Data Store and Medical Data Integration
Here is the second poster presentation from the NEDB 2013 conference at MIT. The conference was on Feb. 1, 2013, and was a boat-load of fun. ABSTRACT: As a premier research institution, the University of Pennsylvania harbors numerous databases: these … Continue reading
Posted in Careers And Work, Education, Genetics, Information Technology, Resource-a-rama
Tagged CCHIT-certified data warehouse, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, clinical data warehouse, Clinical research, data integration, Data warehouse, Medical record, Medical research, Penn, Penn Data Store, United States, University of Pennsylvania
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The Future of Health Data
Here is the poster that I presented at the New England Database Conference 2013, held over at MIT‘s Stata Center in Cambridge, MA. I’ve also excised the abstract for ease of reading (and so that Google will zero in on … Continue reading
Don’t Get Lazy, and Learn for Life
I am enrolled in Drexel‘s MSIS, and have only a few classes to go. Currently, I’m finishing up my pre-req courses to finish the Masters of Science in Information Systems (MSIS). Before this, I completed my MSLIS (MS Library and … Continue reading
What Does an IT Manager Do?
I had a chance to catch up with my high school friend, who now works it IT. He’s been in tech for over 10 years, but originally has a BS in Economics, with a minor in CIS – this was … Continue reading
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I’m really looking forward to getting my new desktop computer. My wife and I got a newer system for Xmas (in the Futurama tradition for holiday names), and I plan on crunching more of the World Bank data into KML. … Continue reading →