Posts Tagged ‘teaching’

BigData MSc

May 9, 2014

http://www.rhul.ac.uk/computerscience/prospectivestudents/postgraduatetaught/bigdata.aspx

A Degree Where Techie Meets Business Smarts – NYTimes.com

April 27, 2014

Degree Where #Techie Meets #Business Smarts
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/education/a-degree-where-techie-meets-business-smarts.html QT: Now we’re called technicians. With a masters we’re called scientists.

What is a support vector machine?

February 5, 2014

What is a support vector machine? A nice overview w/o equations, just pictures. Great for #teaching!
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v24/n12/abs/nbt1206-1565.html #SVM .@GenomeNathan YES, but see
http://noble.gs.washington.edu/papers/noble_what.html …, which has an expanded, “free” version.
http://noble.gs.washington.edu/papers/noble_what.html
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v24/n12/abs/nbt1206-1565.html

Machine Learning Cheat Sheet (for scikit-learn)

January 17, 2014

http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.com/2013/01/machine-learning-cheat-sheet-for-scikit.html

http://scikit-learn.org/dev/

Choosing the right estimator — scikit-learn 0.14 documentation

December 8, 2013

Might be good for course slides!

MT @sjackman @anshul
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/machine_learning_map … is useful for #teaching, providing students a practical way to wade through all the approaches

PRISM metadata analysis: Paul Revere identified by his connections to other Colonial terrorists. – Slate Magazine

June 16, 2013

Great primer on network theory MT @russskinner PRISM… analysis: Paul Revere identified by his connections to others http://bit.ly/11DK8R9
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/06/prism_metadata_analysis_paul_revere_identified_by_his_connections_to_other.single.html

The Crisis in Higher Education | MIT Technology Review

December 7, 2012

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/429376/the-crisis-in-higher-education/

Blurring cheating and collaboration | Yale Daily News

September 26, 2012

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/sep/11/blurring-cheating-collaboration/ Useful to keep in mind when assigning collaborative projects