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<h3><a target="_blank" href="http://www.baselinemag.com/careers/slideshows/why-data-science-rock-stars-earn-big-salaries.html">Why Data Science ‘Rock Stars’ Earn Big Salaries</a> (Dennis McCafferty)</h3>
<p>Recent post and slide deck related to the 2016 Data Science Salary Survey (O’Reilly Media), with R mentioned as one of the high-demand programming languages (next to SQL and Python). “Today’s data scientists in the United States are typically members of the six-figure salary club”. Are <em>you</em> a member as well?</p>
<h3><a target="_blank" href="http://www.iotevolutionworld.com/iot/articles/425821-prediction-the-age-big-data-science-behind-recommendation.htm">Prediction in the Age of Big Data: The Science Behind Recommendation Systems</a> (Devavrat Shah)</h3>
<p>Interesting article by MIT professor Devavrat Shah answering the question “How can data scientists extract meaningful insights and accurately predict customers’ preferences in the age of big data?”. Mentions the <a target="_blank" href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/recommenderlab/vignettes/recommenderlab.pdf">RecommenderLab</a> R package.</p>
<h3><a target="_blank" href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-the-ubiquity-of-data-intelligence/">Microsoft and the ubiquity of data intelligence</a> (Andrew Brust)</h3>
<p>Short overview of improved R integration in Microsoft Power BI and SQL Server 2016. “with SQL Server R Services, Microsoft has been able to get SQL Server to support the generation of <em>100 million </em>predictions per second.”</p>
<h3><a target="_blank" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/quora/where-will-data-science-b_b_12375864.html">Where Will Data Science Be in Five Years</a> (Anthony Goldbloom / Huffington Post / Quora)</h3>
<p>Some thoughts by Kaggle’s co-founder and CEO Anthony Goldbloom on the recent past and (near) future of Data Science. Interesting estimates (1.5-3 million) on the number of data scientists (by his definition “somebody using R or Python”) in the world. Compared to 20 million software engineers. BUT: he believes “data science will be bigger than software engineering in the next decade.” Do you agree?</p>
<h3><a target="_blank" href="http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/238726/how-do-r-and-python-complement-each-other-in-data-science">How do R and Python complement each other in data science?</a> (CrossValidated)</h3>
<p>Oh no… Python vs R, not again! But wait: This lively CrossValidated discussion seeks common ground and focuses on the <em>complementarity</em> of both languages. Are you actually using Python as a complement to R?</p>
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