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This post was originally published in Reaktor’s blog and it continues on the MyData theme. It’s good to be back in action after a half-year blogging silence. I’m also really excited about the Mydata 2016 conference next week, where I’ll be hosting a session titled “Challenges... [Read More]

With all the data science and big data hype going on it’s always nice to see real case examples. At Reaktor we have created Kannattaakokauppa.fi, a probabilistic modeling-based interactive visualisation of regional apartment price trends in Finland. The service shows the predicted price levels and trends for year... [Read More]

The choice of tools in practical data science projects is often restricted into ones that are easy and fast to implement and that work efficiently. Traditionally this has ruled out for example most Bayesian data analysis techniques, as they involve laborious statistical inference procedures. This is about to change with... [Read More]

The data science scene in Finland has been growing well in the recent years. Here’s a recap of the data science events and other stuff in Finland that hit my radar during 2015. If you think something important is missing, please add a comment! Meetups The first public data... [Read More]

Healthcare sector is undergoing dramatic changes enabled by new digital technologies. One key question for the future of healthcare is how personal health data, including existing health records and also data from modern wellbeing sensors and activity trackers, can be taken into more effective use. There is for example increasing... [Read More]