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Paying by Numbers—Should Data Scientists Receive Performance Based Compensation?

February 8, 2015 By editor

Learning Tree International just published another of my articles. I recently read an opinion that data analysts will start to be paid for performance. My article is presents an opposing view. While there are jobs where performance can be measured in isolation, I don't believe that data science is one of them. Read the article for my full argument. … [Read more...]

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How to build a predictive model using Azure Machine Learning

January 29, 2015 By editor

I’ve just published an article about how to use Microsoft’s Azure Machine Learning platform . You can read it on the Learning Tree International blog. … [Read more...]

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How to build a predictive model using R

January 20, 2015 By editor

I've just published an article on how to build a model that predicts breast cancer diagnoses using R. You can read it on the Learning Tree International blog. It applies the k-nearest neighbors algorithm to one of the data sets from the UCI Machine Learning Repository. … [Read more...]

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