Public Service Annoucement: Think Twice About Upgrading to OSX Mavericks If...
Upgrading to any new operating system can be problematic. However, if you depend on R and R Studio for your living, I would highly recommend NOT upgrading to OS X Mavericks, despite its nonexistent...
View Article“Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research”– An Excellent Read...
Recently, the journal PLOS Computational Biology published an excellent article by Geir Kjetil Sandve, Anton Nekrutenko, James Taylor, and Eivind Hovig entitled the “Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible...
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Big Data Analysis with Topic Models: Human Interaction, Streaming...
Curious about techniques and methods for applying data science to unstructured text? Now that we’ve hit our stride, November’s meetup will be at the same bat-time (second Wednesday of the month at...
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ModevEast Mobile Developer Conference Special Discount for DC2 Members
ModevEast is the East coast’s most important mobile event of the year, happening December 12-13 at the Gannett Conference Center in McLean, VA. The program features two jam-packed days of talks,...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Hackathon Day 1!
At around 8am on a chilly Saturday morning, the Smithsonian American Art Museum opened it’s doors early for a special group. A group that decided this weekend they would get together and help the Art...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Hackathon Day 2 !
Hackathon Day 2- The sequel!! Welcome back! Let me just start off by saying thank you SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM for putting on the best hackathon ever! Granted, it was my first hackathon, but...
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OpenGov Voices: PDF Liberation Hackathon – At Sunlight in DC and Around the...
Marc Joffe is the founder of Public Sector Credit Solutions (PSCS), which applies open data and analytics to rating government bonds. Before starting PSCS, Marc was a Senior Director at Moody’s...
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DATA Act Passes U.S. House – President Urged to Endorse Landmark Open Data...
This is a reposted community announcement from our friends at the Data Transparency Coalition. The original announcement can be seen here:...
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The Data Scientist Algorithm
The following is a guest post. What is the make-up of a data scientist? Is it all about the amount of knowledge one possesses? The specific area of study? To answer these questions, Software Advice, a...
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General Assembly & DC2 Scholarship
GA DC2 Scholarship The DC2 mission statement emphasises that “Data Community DC is an organization committed to connecting and promoting the work of data professionals…”, ultimately we see DC2 becoming...
View ArticleBoard Meeting Notes for November 2013
The Data Community DC Board Data Community DC (DC2) is a member driven organization that provides a truly open and welcoming community of people who produce, consume, analyze, and work with data. The...
View ArticleRanking DC Software Companies for Fun and Employment
Are you a software engineer or data scientist in the DC area looking for a new project to work on? How do you select a company whose culture will fit your own? How do you look for the type of work that...
View ArticleBoard Meeting Notes for December 2013
Board Meeting Notes for December 2013 The Data Community DC Board Data Community DC (DC2) is a member driven organization that provides a truly open and welcoming community of people who produce,...
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Expanding the Online Presence of Data Community DC – W3DC’s Strategic Plan...
by Sean Murphy & Benjamin Bengfort W3DC handles online and technological aspects of Data Community DC. Its primary scope is the web domain at http://datacommunitydc.org as well as content and...
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DC NLP January Meetup Announcement: Linguistic Libations
Curious about techniques and methods for applying data science to unstructured text? Join us at the DC NLP January Meetup! We’re meeting a week later than usual this month due to the holidays, so...
View ArticleThe Power of Power: Common Problems Running Experiments Online
The following is a guest post by Katya Vasilaky, a PhD economist who is now a Fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia University and served as the Vice President of Strategy and Analytics at...
View ArticleBoard Meeting Notes for January 2014
The Data Community DC Board Data Community DC (DC2) is a member driven organization that provides a truly open and welcoming community of people who produce, consume, analyze, and work with data. The...
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Channel Your Mad Data Skills into an App to Showcase at Health Datapalooza 2014
The Health Data Consortium invites DC2 members and others with a passion for innovation and big data in health to submit an app for consideration for the Health Datapalooza 2014 App Demos—a chance to...
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Developments with Data Visualization DC
From its inception, Data Visualization DC has been actively searching for new ways to engage its audience and create a more integrated self sustaining community, and be a more valuable part of Data...
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The Fall of the P-Value
We at Data Community DC wanted to highlight a very interesting and relevant article for data practitioners published over at Nature.com. For most people, P-values are the “gold standard” by which the...
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