Links

Learning Resources

• IBM business intelligence learning resources
  • Cognos Insight Tutorial (3h)
• Microsoft business intelligence learning resources
• Business intelligence news aggregator
• Microsoft e-Learning environmant
• Microsoft Virtual Academy
• Gallery of Data Visualization: The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics
• Important model evaluation and error metrics

Media

• Sci Show on Bayesian reasoning

Articles in Media

• How Companies Learn Your Secrets
• IBM Watson: The inside story of how the Jeopardy-winning supercomputer was born, and what it wants to do next

Helper Tools

• Analytics for Twitter for Excel 2010 (is included in 2013).
• 10 Twitter analytics tools
• PowerPivot - analysis tool for Excel 2010, 2013 and Sharepoint.
• EKI Estonian Language Tools
• Open source web crawlers

Data Sources

• Azure Datamarket
• University of Tartu library
• Statistics of Estonia

Challenges

• Visualizing.org - visualisation-related challenges
• Kaggle - data analysis-related challenges

Analysis in Science

• The Need for Reproducibility in Academic Research
• Reuters: 47 out of 53 cancer studies (89%) can not be replicated
• Nature: 65% of claims in literature do not match data from experiments
• The Atlantic: 80% of non-randomised studies are wrong
• TED: Ben Goldacre - Battling Bad Science

Previous seminars

• 2016 autumn
• 2016 spring
• 2015 autumn
• 2015 spring
• 2014 autumn
• 2014 spring
• 2013 autumn

Other

• Student Project Contest at ICS
• BI Demo - Aircraft design simulation