Entropy & Evolution

Validation: The Market vs Peer Review

How do we know our methods are valid? In academia your customers are primarily other academics, and…

Women in Data - A Special Event on Monday, September 23rd.

Data Innovation DC is excited to bring you a very special event: Women in Data.  As many Meetup.com…

The Data Products Venn Diagram

Back in 2010, New York-based data scientist Drew Conway famously created the Data Science Venn…

This is a guest post by Brand Niemann, former Sr. Enterprise Architect at EPA, and Director and Sr. Data Scientist at Semantic Community. He previously wrote a blog post for DC2 about the upcoming SOA, Semantics, and Data Science conference.

The August…

Why a Data Community is like a Music Scene

Talking Heads – CBGB Theatre, by Grant Gouldon, on Flickr

David Byrne, lead singer for the Talking…

The 11 Most Interesting #DCTech Tweets According to @gosynapsify

In July, Peter Corbett of iStrategyLabs shared a data set of 65,000 tweets and facebook statuses from the DC tech community which we visualized with a word cloud. Now we’ve used technology from local startup, Synapsifyto find the most meaningful and…

DC Natural Language Processing is back #NLP

The following is a guest post from Charlie Greenbacker, organizer of the DC NLP meetup.

Curious about techniques and methods for applying data science to unstructured text?

The DC NLP meetup group is for anyone in the Washington, D.C. area working in, or…

A Review of the July 2013 Data Science DC Meetup: Lightning Talks!

Guest post blogger Jenna Dutcher is the community relations manager for UC Berkeley’s datascience@b…

US Government Contracting: Year 2013 in Review #Infographic by GovTribe

BinaryPig: Scalable Static Binary Analysis Over Hadoop from EndGame

Below is a white paper previously published by End Game, reproduced with permission. Endgame…

DC2 Needs Volunteers! #dctech

The Pyramid of Data Science

This is a guest post by Oscar Olmedo, whose bio is below.

In a data science project, we want to get…

Want to Learn Data Science? Get a Personal Tutor from SageBourse, a Hot New Startup in DC

SageBourseis a tutoring marketplace for data science and programming. It’s essentially a way for…

Fantastic presentations from R using slidify and rCharts

Dr. Ramnath Vaidyanathan of McGill University gave an excellent presentation at a joint Data…

Weekly Round-Up: Data Analysis Tools, M2M, Machine Learning, and Naming Babies

Welcome back to the round-up, an overview of the most interesting data science, statistics, and…

For anyone who's ever tried to sell #DataScience let's start a conversation @Strength_N

Data Science MD August Recap: Sports Analytics Meetup

For August’s meetup, Data Science MD hosted a discussion on one of the most popular fields of…