Written by Alexander Raginsky 
Big scale data analysis has been around for years, but only recently it started to be recognized in industry as a valuable mechanism to foster a bunch of business processes. In this publication we tried to collect some of numerous open resources accessible by everybody working in the field of data mining. Part 1,
Written by Alexander Raginsky In the article we published a couple of weeks ago, Nick Gallimore warns recent NLP graduates that there is no big job market for linguists without solid coding skills. It stimulated us to run a small research project in order to understand which requirements the industrial job market dictates to computational linguists and other NLP/DM/ML
Written by Alexander Raginsky 
A couple of undergraduates have written to me recently asking the same, very pertinent question. Here’s an example we had in recently from Emily: I am just finishing my undergraduate degree in English Language/Linguistics and I’m considering continuing to postgraduate study in computational linguistics (for example at Sheffield doing MSc in Computer Science with Speech
Written by Alexander Raginsky 
Now that the summer is moving to its end, let’s recall how we, the graduate students of the NLP community, have spent it. Apart from some travelling thanks to the attendance of various great conferences such as NAACL-HLT in Atlanta, GA, in the beginning of June or ACL in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the beginning of
Written by Alexander Raginsky 
We continue supporting the Coursera.org initiatives providing access to world-class educational courses. Few weeks ago we published a review of the Columbia University course on the Natural Language Processing and got positive feedback from our readers. Now it is time to present another course called “Introduction to Data Science” taught by Professor Bill Howe (University
Written by Alexander Raginsky 
Globalization rules the world. Nowadays studying Ph.D in one country, doing post-doc in another one and working in the third country will hardly surprise anyone. However changing the place is not an easy step. It brings new experience but may require mind flexibility to adapt to a foreign country and its people. We asked Muntsa Padró,
Written by Alexander Raginsky 
Thanks to the Internet, the world has become a huge mountain of data convertible into insightful knowledge for decision making and conclusion drawing. We are living in interesting time: the amount of available information is growing exponentially, so do the methods used to process the data but, probably, at a slower pace. Industrial users have
Written by Alexander Raginsky 
We are in the middle of a paradigm shift, probably the biggest in history. The higher education system is changing. Education is becoming free and accessible for anybody who has a computer with Internet access. Coursera.org is the first resource providing access to free online classes from the leading universities worldwide. Many of the classes
Written by Alexander Raginsky 
We continue to publish the guides on career selection. The first two guides (part 1 and part 2) were dedicated to move from academia to industry. Now we are presenting the opposite direction guide. The economic downturn has been hard on just about everyone, even those hoping to find work outside of the traditional
Written by Alexander Raginsky 
Rodolfo Maslias is Greek and studied languages and law in Greece, Germany, Spain and Luxembourg. He worked as translator at the European Parliament since 1981 and since 2008 he is heading the Terminology Coordination Unit. He taught translation at the Ionian University of Corfu and Multilingualism and Terminology at the University of Luxembourg. He was
