I have recently become a Quora addict, and you can see why it is such a great site. If possible say hello to me there at
http://www.quora.com/Ajay-Ohri
My latest favorite question-
What are the most hilarious pie charts?
https://www.quora.com/Pie-Charts/What-are-the-most-hilarious-pie-charts
I am only showing you some of the answers, you can see the rest yourself.
From Predictive Analytics Conference,
http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco/2013/
Detailed Agenda Coming Soon
Predictive Analytics World April 14-19 in San Francisco is packed with the top predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors and business thought leaders, including keynote speakers:
 Rayid Ghani Chief Data Scientist Obama for American 2012 Campaign |
 Anthony Goldbloom CEO Kaggle The $3m Heritage Health Prize: Results and Conclusions |
 Edward Nazarko Client Technical Advisor IBM Putting IBM Watson to Work |
Higher education in the West is no longer the exclusive club and proxy partner to student debt. This amazing article by NYTimes shows how- the following are shaking the football loving US education giants in their boots while bring balance back to the Force. Big Education for the common people because you need humans to code in the Big Data era.
https://www.coursera.org/ – The pioneer, has the advantages and disadvantages of being the market leader in an innovating. Sure 1.7 million users, but how many are attending how many lectures and how many newly skilled machine learning people are there after 2 courses have been completed by Andrew Ng, and does industry feel the same about the employ-ability of these course takers.
https://www.edx.org/ , and http://www.udacity.com/ – again some course are common across these platforms so more public web analytics would be a welcome step.
But I really liked Stanford’s open source solution, so that anyone especially and including corporations and companies can start creating their own online courses. It is called class2go and is available at https://github.com/Stanford-Online/class2go
Class2Go is Stanford’s internal open-source platform for on-line education. A team of eight built the first version over the summer 2012, and it is still under active development. Class2Go launched this Fall for six on-campus classes and two “massive open online courses” (MOOC’s): Computer Networking and Solar Cells, Fuel Cells, and Batteries.
Class2Go was built to be an open platform for learning and research. Professors have access to the classes’ data to learn how their students learn.
Projects that help class2go.com
Good to see technology and the internet bringing back skills to people globally, so in the future they wont have to use a skill shortage excuse to import cyber technology H1b slaves and coolies from Asia forced to choose between livelihood, family and undeniable economic arbitrage pressure. Maybe they can try and customize it for Africa, or for women or other needy areas as well.
Amazon cloud gets more exciting. We are still waiting for the Oracle and Google public clouds (compute) to open up out of beta! See their (rather cluttered) blog
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Today, we are excited to announce a new generation of the original Amazon EC2 instance family. Second generation Standard instances (M3 instances) provide customers with the same balanced set of CPU and memory resources as first generation Standard instances (M1 instances) while providing customers with 50% more computational capability/core.
M3 instances are currently available in two instance types; extra-large (m3.xlarge) and double extra-large (m3.2xlarge). Examples of applications that can benefit from the additional CPU horsepower of these new instances include media encoding, batch processing, web servers, caching fleets, and many others. Currently, M3 instances are available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region starting at a Linux On-Demand price of $0.58/hr for extra-large instances. Customers can also purchase M3 instances as Reserved Instances or as Spot instances. We will introduce M3 instances in additional regions in the coming months.
To learn more about Amazon EC2 instance types and to find out which instance type might be useful for you, please visit the Amazon EC2 Instance type page.
Pricing Change for M1 Standard Instances
Along with the introduction of the M3 Standard instance family, we are announcing a reduction in Linux On-Demand pricing for M1 Standard instances in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) Regions by almost 19%. The new pricing is effective from November 1 and is described in the following table
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You can find out more about pricing for all Amazon EC2 instances by visiting the Amazon EC2 pricing page.
I really like the design, course structure and Hadley Wickham (in no particular order) as part of R Studio’ training suite which may be new, but is much better and open. Again I think Oracle’s training is awesome for online features , but some body needs to step up and create a credible R certification here. More power to R 😉
Check it out-
http://www.rstudio.com/training/
Cost of 1 day of Revolution Analytics Training at http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/services/training/
| Price: | Commercial: SGD$500.00 Academic:SGD$350.00 1 Singapore dollar = 0.8197 US dollars10% Early Bird Discount Deadline: November 13, 2012 @ 12:00PM Pacific Time |
2. (aptly titled Minimalistic Sufficient R…you think the ricing would be minimalistic.. but)
http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/services/training/public/minimalist-sufficient-r.php
Price:
$750
$100 Early Bird Discount Deadline: November 16, 2012 @ 12:00PM Pacific Time
Discount code: earlybird
3.
| Price: | Commercial: €680.00 Academic: €480.00 1 euro = 1.2975 US dollars |
4.
| Price: | $500 with 2 month Revolution R Enterprise workstation evaluation.
$700 with 1 year subscription of Revolution R enterprise workstation ($1500 value) 10% Early Bird Discount Deadline: October 30, 2012 @ 12:00PM Pacific Time |
5.
| Price: | Commercial: S$1,200.00 Academic:S$750.00 10% Early Bird Discount Deadline: October 30, 2012 @ 12:00PM Pacific Time |
so training costs differently different strokes for different folks I guess,
BUT me hearties.
Cost of 1 year of Revolution Enterprise= $1000
Thats a flat rate, so the Linux and Windows costs the same and so does the 32-bit and 64-bit
(see http://buy.revolutionanalytics.com/ )
( My comment- either Revo should give away the license for free to enterprises, rationalize training costs, seriously how can 2 days of training cost like a 1 year of license and the software is definitely quite good., or create a paid Amazon Ec 2 AMI for enterprises to rent the Revolution Analytics software (like SAP Hana ), or even on Windows Azure if they insist on hugging Microsoft, though I am clearly seeing various flavors of Linux beating Windows Server to a pulp in the Big Data market, though I am probably more optimistic on the Windows 8 on Surface but because of hardware not software/ Azure alternative to Amazon given Google’s delayed offering- I dont even know many many instance of Windows related HPC or HPA, (/end_of_rant)
| Annual Subscription Includes software license and technical support |
Price | Quantity | Total |
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| Revolution R Enterprise Single-User Workstation (64-bit Windows) | $1,000.00 | $0.00 | |
| Revolution R Enterprise Single-User Workstation (32-bit Windows) | $1,000.00 | $0.00 | |
| Revolution R Enterprise Single-User Workstation (64-bit Red Hat 6 Enterprise Linux) | $1,000.00 | $0.00 | |
| Revolution R Enterprise Single-User Workstation (64-bit Red Hat 5 Enterprise Linux) | $1,000.00 | $0.00
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PiCloud had an interesting announcement, they support non-Python things in custom environments, but R is pre-built in a new Base Environment.
http://blog.picloud.com/2012/10/24/new-base-environment-ubuntu-precise/
Our latest environment is pre-configured with many of the latest libraries, making it easier than ever to move your computation to the cloud. Here are some of the notable packages:
. To use Precise, specify the environment of a job as ‘base/precise’. In Python:
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cloud.call(f, _env='base/precise') |
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