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3rd September 2010 - Link Blog

The Seven Secrets of Successful Data Scientists. Some sensible advice, including pick the right sized tool, compress everything, split up your data, use open source and run the analysis where the data is.

Posted 3rd September 2010 at 12:36 am

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