- If you are on the job market, Tal Galili from R bloggers has compiled 3 new R jobs for seekers like you.
- Text mining is currently a live issue in data analysis. Enoromus text data resourses on the Internet made it an important component of Big Data world. If text mining is something that you need to do for your job, you should read Text mining in R – Automatic categorization of Wikipedia articles.
- Randy Olsen, PhD student at Michigan State University’s Computer Science program, studies the percentages of undergraduate degrees conferred to men in the USA and publishes his findings in a blog titled The double-edged sword of gender equality.
- Who will win the World Cup? See what statisticians say.
- Earlier this month, the results of the 15th annual KDnuggets Software Poll were released and R’s popularity continues to grow. See Revolution Analytics’ new post for details.
- And finally, Xi’an discusses a new paper by Simon Barthelmé and Nicolas Chopin called The Poisson transform for unnormalised statistical models.
I’m fascinated and intrigued by data mining and competitive intelligence…it’s a whole different branch of the LIS-field I have yet to explore.