Recommended: The Big Data and HR

I'd like to share this interview with Andrew Gadomski by Peter Clayton on how the Big Data is disrupting the HR business. This interview has been published on the Datasciencecentral.com page. If you want to know a bit more you can just click on here. Enjoy!

Recommended: Early Riser? What You Should Do When You Wake Up

Margaret Thatcher was famous for needing only four hours of sleep. That's the popular wisdom, at least; her critics might argue that chronic sleep deprivation explains some of the crazier policies of her latter year.

Read the full article of Inc.com by Margaret Hefernan

Recommended: Low-cost smartphones to account for 46% of market by 2018

Sure, everyone would like to own the latest and greatest Android handset – Samsung Galaxy S4 or HTC One are such examples – but many buyers choose instead a budget smartphone or even a feature phone. While budget smartphones account for 28% of the market right now, ABI Research says low-cost smartphone market share is in for a reasonable rise, to 46% of the market by 2018.

Read the full article on  Androidauthority.com

Data Science: The End of Statistics?

Data Science: The End of Statistics? (Posted on the Normal Deviate Blog)
As I see newspapers and blogs filled with talk of “Data Science” and “Big Data” I find myself filled with a mixture of optimism and dread. Optimism, because it means statistics is finally a sexy field. Dread, because statistics is being left on the sidelines.
The very fact that people can talk about data science without even realizing there is a field already devoted to the analysis of data — a field called statistics — is alarming. I like what Karl Broman says:
When physicists do mathematics, they don’t say they’re doing “number science”. They’re doing math.
If you’re analyzing data, you’re doing statistics. You can call it data science or informatics or analytics or whatever, but it’s still statistics.
Well put.

 Read the full article here

A Little words and tears on Google Reader

I can’t stand. I need say something about Google Reader death. I’m sad and deeply disappointed about. I’m disappointed with Google for getting rid of this great tool. I’m an enthusiastic reader of blogs. You can actually can find some tips about what to read if you’re interested on the same stuff than I’m. I used to follow all posts about Startups, geeks, marketing, big data, apps, Smartphone market, Chile, and so on. As you can see it’s quite difficult to get updated by just remembering all the good websites that I ever found on the Web. Thus when I realized that Google Reader existed I was a real happy guy and many times more productive. It sounds nerd: I’m a proud one!