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Congrats to Matt Stromberg- Winner 2 free passes to PAW New York

Here is a big congrats to Matt Stromberg of San Diego for winning 2 free passes to Predictive Analytics World. Each pass can be used for 2 days of the conference, and it is exclusive to that conference alone.

Connect to Matt ?

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=3611395 or http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matt-stromberg/6/a3b/47a

A coincidence- its his birthday today. Happy Birthday Matt and enjoy NY and PAW Con


WINNER- Matt Stromberg

Mgr., Project Management & Business Analytics

Greater San Diego Area 
 

 

Ethics and Writing

A particularly prominent technology blogger ( see http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/michael_arrington_the_kingmaker_who_would_be_king.php )has now formalized his status as an investor (which he did even before) while relinquishing his editorial duties (which were not much given the blog’s acquisition by AOL and its own formidable line of writers, each one of whom is quite influential). Without going into either sermon mode (thou shall not have conflict of interests) or adulatory mode (wow he sold the blog for 30 mill and now he gets another 20 mill for his funds)- I shall try and present the case for ethics and ethical lapses while as a writer.

Continue reading “Ethics and Writing”

Contest : 2 free passes to Predictive Analytics World

I got some good news from the fine people at Predictive Analytics World.

 you qualify for 2 free passes to the PAW NYC event October 16-20, 2011.  I will be sending you a code to use for registration to receive these passes within the next couple of days.

If you cannot attend our PAW NYC event, please feel free to use these two free passes as a promotional tool within your blog.

Now I have been partnering with PAW for a long time, so it is nice to have free passes. I am grateful for their support of this blog. Therein lies my dilemma. I am in India, and a return ticket from NYC to India costs 1100$. Unless something drastic happens , I dont see myself with that kind of travel money.

Ergo.

I am offering two free passes to Predictive Analytics World . http://predictiveanalyticsworld.com/

All you need to do is – ahem- cough-

  1. like the Facebook Page of Decisionstats.  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Decisionstats/217450141605435 OR
  2.  Add me to a Google circle https://plus.google.com/116302364907696741272/posts OR
  3. Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/0_h_r_1

AND


  1. Read one of my poems at my poetry blog at http://poemsforkush.wordpress.com/ and leave a comment with your email id please . It’s a promotion for my next book “Poets and Hackers” due for release in 2 weeks.
The 2 free passes are for any 2 days of the PAW NYC event.  This free pass may not be used for Text Analytics World conference being held the same week.  Please have your Contest winners use the Free Code:  XXXXXXXX.  This code will be good for two uses in registering. 
Thats ‘it. Two free passes , and go for it if you are around NYC in October. NY is a lovely place and I am wearing my red FDNY T shirt as I am typing this.

What do you get?

One of these –http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/newyork/register.php (details awaited!) to

http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/newyork/2011/

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CrowdANALYTIX

Here is a contest based community called CrowdANALYTIX.com which is quite nice and offers you free Revolution R for the statistical and analytical contests based there (a bit like Kaggle.com http://www.kaggle.com/). There are only 3 contests right now and that too low volume but I guess that number should increase. Also they seem to have a consulting arm.

Latest Analytics website- welcome! http://www.crowdanalytix.com/contests

Careers in #Rstats

I saw a posting for career with Revolution Analytics. Now I am probably on the wrong side of a H1 visa and the C,R skill-o-meter, but these look great for any aspiring R coder. Includes one free lance opp as well.

http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/aboutus/careers.php

We have many opportunities opening up—among them:

Job Title Location
Pre-sales Consultants / Technical Sales Palo Alto, CA
Parallel Computing Developer Palo Alto, CA or Seattle, WA
R Programmer (Freelance) Palo Alto, CA
Software Training Course Developer (Freelance) Palo Alto, CA
Build / Release Engineer Seattle, WA
QA Engineer Seattle, WA
Technical Writer Seattle, WA

 

Please send your resume to careers@revolutionanalytics.com

2) Indeed.com

Searching for “R” jobs and not just , R jobs, gives better results in search engines and job sites. It is still a tough keyword to search but it is getting better.

You can use this RSS feed http://www.indeed.co.in/rss?q=%22R%22++analytics+jobs or send by email option to get alerts

3) http://icrunchdata.com/

 

I Crunch Data has a good number of Analytics Jobs, and again using the keyword as R within quotes of “R” you can see lots of jobs here

http://www.icrunchdata.com/ViewJob.aspx?id=334914&keys=%22R%22

There used to be a Google Group on R jobs, but is too low volume compared to the actual number of R jobs out there.

Note the big demand is for analytics, and knowing more than one platform helps you in the job search than knowing just a single language.

 

 

 

Using #Rstats for online data access

There are multiple packages in R to read data straight from online datasets.
These are as follows- Continue reading “Using #Rstats for online data access”

Google Cloud Connect

 

Interestingly a Google Plugin to share Microsoft Office on the Cloud.

Google Cloud Connect is a plug-in for Microsoft Office® 2003, 2007, and 2010 that lets you share and edit Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents simultaneously with other people in your organization. You get the collaboration benefits of Google Docs, while still using Microsoft Office.

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/cloudconnect

Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office

Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office brings collaborative multi-person editing to the familiar Microsoft® Office experience. You can share, backup, and simultaneously edit Microsoft Word, PowerPoint®, and Excel® documents with coworkers.

Watch the videos below to learn how Google Cloud Connect teaches your old docs new tricks.

Learn how Cloud Connect helped Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca (English only)

Help and information for users
Help and information for administrators

Download Google Cloud Connect

It’s free and downloads in seconds.

Requirements:

  • Windows XP with .NET Framework 2.0, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
  • Microsoft Office 2003, Office 2007, or Office 2010