What is data science/what do data scientists do?
- Data Scientist vs Data Analyst
- 10 Popular Business Analytics Tools
- Cloudera: What is Data Science? (white paper)
- Data Science toolbox lecture (video)
- http://www.greenplum.com/communities/data-scientist
- http://www.quora.com/Career-Advice/How-do-I-become-a-data-scientist
- R vs Python
- Columbia Institute for Data Science and Engineering
- Interview with the president of Kaggle (Specialist knowledge is useless)
Hadoop
- Mark Madsen: What Hadoop Is and What It Isn't
- Cloudera: Hardware Recs for Hadoop
- Wired Article About Mahout and Overstock.com
Both Data Science and Hadoop
- Cloudera: Data Science on Hadoop (video; sign-in required)
- Cloudera: Data Science: A Personal History (slides)
- Omer Trajman: Use Cases of Analytics in Hadoop (video)
- Cloudera: Data Scientist: The New Data Analyst (slides)
- Cloudera: R, Hadoop, and some use cases
Learning R
- Basic
- CodeSchool's Try R
- Quora topic on R learning
- Good Reference
- A compilation of R blogs
- Blog entries on visualization package GGPLOT2
- Advanced / Meaty
