BigDataFr recommends: Quick Guide to learn Statistics for R Users-with Titanic Data Set

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Chase Davis lays down some data science upon us to change how you think about the questions you’re asking of your data.

Big Data isn’t what you think it is: Every federal campaign contribution over the last 30-plus years amounts to several tens of millions of records. That’s not Big. Neither is a dataset of 50 million Medicare records. Or even 260 gigabytes of files related to offshore tax havens—at least not when Google counts its data in exabytes.

No, the stuff we analyze in pursuit of journalism and app-building is downright tiny by comparison. […]

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By Manish Saraswat
Source: opennews.org