Coinciding with the upcoming release of Microsoft R Server and SQL Server 2016, I have been busy refreshing my classroom-based course, Practical Data Science. You can find the updated description, as well as the dates for the 2016 deliveries here.

I expect to add two or three more dates, most likely in November and December, but the rest of the year is fixed now. See you there!

Rafal

• 7 March 2016
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As I have announced in June, we have been changing our online training pricing structure in order to be able to better reward our training content authors. As of today, we no longer offer 1 and 3 month Full Access Memberships, which have been replaced with a 6 month membership, costing $190. The annual membership remains unchanged—for now.

• 3 November 2015
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I have just published an essay on the value and the meaning of advanced analytics, machine learning, and data science. It directly relates to the value proposition of what we do as data scientists and I hope it can help some of you explain, and maybe sell, your services and skills to the often hesistant business decision makers. While I wrote this article thinking of Cortana Analytics Suite, it is by no means related to any technology in particular. I look forward to your feedback:

• 6 October 2015
• 1 comment
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