I wish I have more time of learning skills of data analysis.

The Age of Big Data

By STEVE LOHR

GOOD with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking.

More people want to learn statistics

 

More people want to learn statistics

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Data is hot right now, so as you would expect, more people are signing up and applying to learn about it. Quentin Hardy for The New York Times reports.

At North Carolina State, an advanced analytics program lasting 10 months has, since its founding in 2006, placed over 90 percent of its students annually. The average graduate’s starting salary for an entry-level job is $73,000. Its current class of 40 students had 185 applicants, and next year’s applications are already twice that. In 2009, Harvard awarded four undergraduate degrees in statistics. Two graduates went into finance, one to political polling and one became a substitute teacher. There were nine graduates in 2010, 13 last year. They headed into Google, biosciences and Wall Street, as well as Stanford's literature department.

And in 2011, just about everywhere.

[New York Times via @jsteeleeditor]

Feedly. Feed your mind. http://www.feedly.com

To-Do Lists Don't Work (blogs.hbr.org)

To-Do Lists Don't Work
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/01/to-do_lists_dont_work.html

R is definitely the future (for those who can learn with English).

I had witnessed one of the founders of SAS moved to R in 2003 when I was a graduate student.

Now I am watching that the founder of SPSS moved to R and founded a new company based on R. (take a look of the last page of the pdf and see the intro of the author and the company:
http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/why-revolution-r/whitepapers/The-Rise-of-Big-Data-Executive-Brief.pdf

Here is the slide that may also interest you:
http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/news-events/free-webinars/2011/big-data-analytics/Big-Analytics-Revolution-Starts-with-R.pdf

Using R in academics can become a common language in the coming years. I am glad that I am on this exciting track and believe that you will feel the same.
I am also going to share these progresses with my students in the data analysis course using R next semester.

60% of students say they wouldn’t attend a school without free WiFi

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/12/20/60-of-students-say-they-wouldnt-attend-a-school-without-free-wifi/?awesm=tnw.to_1CJvX

哈佛大學社科院使用網路調查預測美國2012總統大選

Harvard poll predicts Obama loss

Tool detects patterns hidden in vast data sets

Tool detects patterns hidden in vast data sets
http://www.broadinstitute.org/news/3784

Article: Education Nation 2011: Social Media Belongs in the Classroom

Education Nation 2011: Social Media Belongs in the Classroom
http://www.educationnation.com/index.cfm?objectid=5DE1F0EE-21AE-11E1-A9BF000C296BA163

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我寫給大學生/碩一的一篇還算嚴肅的文章（2011年10月18號發表）

「同時做個學門內部的專才與跨學門的通才：談談社會科學的跨界」

Academic Survey Centers Face Challenges

Having taking the position of the director of the Survey Center of NSYSU for few weeks, I got better understanding what the authors tried to described:

Academic Survey Centers Face Challenges (Letters to the Editor - The Chronicle of Higher Education)