With the semester over, I’m looking to what projects I’ll be taking on for the next couple of months, and I know many of my students are as well. Here are a few fun options people may want to consider, particularly focused on opportunities to get involved with data analysis:
- Try out Mortar, an open source recommendation engine platform, described a bit here
- Take part in Kaggle’s Acquire Valued Shoppers Challenge, playing around with their 22GB of anonymized sample data of 300,000 shopper’s data; this is a massive dataset, Revolution Analytics offers some pointers to tools to help you manage it (you can also check out Kaggle’s other predictive modeling competitions for problems in other domains)
- Get hooked on playing 2048 and then use this R framework to build your own 2048 solver that you can watch try out different strategies
- Check out this Udacity course on Exploratory Data Analysis using R from four Facebookers