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With big data comes big responsibility! But can the data scientists step up and take responsibility of the algorithms they have released? The amount and variety of data-driven applications is increasing rapidly from industrial solutions to practical ones affecting our daily lives. Concerns have been raised about how... [Read More]

I had the pleasure to give a guest lecture on data science at Tampere University of Technology yesterday. I was invidited by my friend Jukka Huhtamäki to give a lecture on Programmatic Content Management course (description in Finnish). This was my first full-scale lecture, so it was a... [Read More]

Data science has recently emerged as an interdisciplinary field with a fair amount of hype around it. It has been declared as the sexiest job of the 21st century and the salaries of data scientists have skyrocketed. However, there still is not a good overall definition for data science,... [Read More]

Here’s a collection of the best data science -related link collections from 2014. Data science and statistics Revolution Analytics - Happy New Year! A look at the top posts from 2014. Simply Statistics - A non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did in 2014 R-bloggers... [Read More]

Slush, the biggest startup conference in Northern Europe, was held last week in Helsinki. I participated the event second time, and here I share some highlights especially from the data science point of view. To get an idea of what the startups were offering, I made the following word... [Read More]