By Serdar Yegulalp What’s the best way to get a good answer to a tough question? Ask a bunch of people, and make a competition out of it. That’s long been <a class="colorbox" href="https://www.kaggle.com/" …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Anaconda Fusion melds Excel with Python data science
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Some of the most creative uses for applications are never intended by their makers. Microsoft Excel may not have been devised as a scratchpad for data scientists, but it’s been …read more Source:: OpenSource
Microsoft’s R tools bring data science to the masses
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•By Simon Bisson One of Microsoft’s more interesting recent acquisitions was Revolution Analytics, a company that built tools for working with big data problems using the open source statistical programming language …read more Source:: OpenSource
Machine learning: From science project to business plan
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•By Serdar Yegulalp 2015 was the year machine learning emerged from the academic closet. No longer was it an esoteric discipline commanded by the few, the proud, the data scientists. Now it …read more Source:: OpenSource
Pop science: Engineers stop soap bubbles from swirling
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•Engineers have happened upon a way to stop the movement of the colorful eddies on the surface of soap bubbles. The results are works of art that could lead to …read more Source:: Science
Six elements of an effective apology, according to science
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•There are six components to an apology – and the more of them you include when you say you’re sorry, the more effective your apology will be, according to new …read more Source:: Science
Science shed new light on the life and death of medieval king Erik
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•The saint’s legend speaks of a king who died a dramatic death in battle outside the church in Uppsala, Sweden, where he had just celebrated mass. But what can modern …read more Source:: Science
Back on Earth, U.S. astronaut faces science labs without the view
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – The return of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly from the longest U.S. space mission on record will kick off a wave of medical tests and experiments …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Aurora Flight Sciences wins $89 million contract for X-plane
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Aurora Flight Sciences has been awarded a contract for more than $89 million for the vertical take off and landing X-plane, the Pentagon said on Thursday. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Science on salt is polarized, study finds
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•An analysis of scientific reports and comments on the health effects of a salty diet reveals a polarization between those supportive of the hypothesis that population-wide reduction of salt intake …read more Source:: Science