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• What programming language should I learn to manipulate and clean up data for analysis?

  Asked by Charles Doyle : 14 December 2011 - 11:06 AM

  

  Answered by mhalverson : Dec 15 2011 08:46 PM
  I would recommend either Python or Perl. Either one will serve you very well for that sort of task. Both are very powerful languages but are very different as well. Look up some examples on the net... full answer >

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  • predictive analytics
  • analytics
  • data mining

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• What is unstructured data?

  

  By macslocum : 02 September 2010 - 04:20 AM

  The topic of "unstructured data" came up during my recent interview with IBM researcher Julia Grace. It's an on-the-rise concept, particularly in data circles, and I asked Grace how she would describe...

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  • data
  • data science
  • unstructured data

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• Data visualization primer: What they are and why they're important

  

  By macslocum : 04 June 2010 - 05:00 AM

  Acquiring data is no longer a problem. It's everywhere, and we're already quite adept at hoarding it in databases. The issue now is making sense of all those signals and finding stories in the stream....

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  • data
  • data science
  • data visualization
  • visualizations

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• A data science cheat sheet

  

  By macslocum : 02 June 2010 - 05:25 AM

  Over on Radar, Mike Loukides takes a deep dive into the growing field of data science. It's a fantastic analysis that examines data science from all angles -- the companies, the technologies and the u...

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  • data scientist
  • data science

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