Five habits of highly successful analysts
I have interacted with various successful analysts over last 7 years. During these interactions, I found out some common habits in them. After observing these habits, I have tried ways to inculcate these habits myself. Some of these habits were also emphasized by my mentors, while the others were learnt the hard way! This article lays down 5 habits I have observed in highly successful analysts and provides some of the ways in which I practice these habits. On one hand, I hope that some one should have made me aware of these habits at start of my career and the long lasting impact these could have.
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"We use scikit-learn to support leading-edge basic research [...]" "I think it's the most well-designed ML package I've seen so far." "scikit-learn's ease-of-use, performance and overall variety of algorithms implemented has proved invaluable [...]."
GATE Study Material for Electrical Engineering
This post is a compilation of result of the survey conducted during 2009 among GATE qualified students. Students recommended books they used for GATE preparation. To learn about the use of multiple books for GATE preparations please refer to GATE study material.
RSA
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Web 2 Tools by Task
Avators: Build your Wild Self - create a self portrait and learn about the animal parts incorporated into your avatar. Mikons - where people communicate through visual symbols, logos, icons, or avatars to tell a story
To Hadoop or Not to Hadoop?
Hadoop is very popular, but is not a solution for all Big Data cases. Here are the questions to ask to determine if Hadoop is right for your problem. Guest blog By Anand Krishnaswamy, ThoughtWorks, Oct 4, 2013. Hadoop is often positioned as the one framework your organization needs to solve nearly all your problems. Mention "Big Data" or "Analytics" and pat comes the reply: Hadoop! Hadoop, however, was purpose-built for a clear set of problems; for others it is, at best, a poor fit or, even worse, a mistake.
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FM 100 Hue Test
Are you among the 1 in 255 women and 1 in 12 men who have some form of color vision deficiency? If you work in a field where color is important, or you’re just curious about your color IQ, take our online challenge to find out. Based on the Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Test, this online challenge is a fun, quick way to understand your color vision acuity.
Busting 10 myths about Hadoop
Although Hadoop and related technologies have been with us for more than five years now, most BI professionals and their business counterparts still harbor a few misconceptions that need to be corrected about Hadoop and related technologies such as MapReduce. The following list of 10 facts will clarify what Hadoop is and does relative to BI/DW, as well as in which business and technology situations Hadoop-based business intelligence (BI), data warehousing (DW), data integration (DI), and analytics can be useful. Fact No. 1: Hadoop consists of multiple products
Data Mining Survivor: - dmsurvivor
The procedures and applications presented in this book have been included for their instructional value. They have been tested but are the author offer any warranties or representations, nor do they accept any liabilities with respect to the programs and applications. The book, as you see it presently, is a work in progress, and different sections are progressed depending on feedback. Please send comments, suggestions, updates, and criticisms to Graham.Williams@togaware.com. I hope you find it useful!
