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October 2017 Hello! This month's newsletter brings you plenty of opportunities to learn new things. Whether it's Pixie Dust, streaming analytics, or skills for emerging technologies there's probably something for you. The "Social power, influence, and performance in the NBA" tutorial series published just in time for the start of the NBA season. In this series, you'll use Python, Pandas, Jupyter Notebook, and a bit of R to analyze NBA teams and players. The tutorial includes all you need to do your own analysis. Perhaps this will help you as you create your Fantasy Basketball team, or you can take what you learn and apply it to other sports. Here's the compulsory newsletter fine print I have to include every month. To change your newsletter subscription or to forward it to a friend, see the lower right corner. Or send me newsletter feedback--I'd love to hear from you! Robin Wood - Content Manager, developerWorks Big Data & Analytics New tutorials and articles Streaming analytics for Python developers In this new course, you'll learn how to create DSX applications in Python to analyze streaming data. Welcome to PixieDust An introduction to PixieDust, the Python library that makes data visualization easy. Social power, influence, and performance in the NBA Learn to analyze how social media impacts the NBA with Python, Pandas, Jupyter Notebook and, a touch of R in this two-part article series. Offloading Your Informix Data in Spark: Part 3. More complex analysis Apply what you learned in Part 1 as you start exploiting the data using the Spark dataframe API to understand just what is a dataframe. Detect anomalies in time series data in Watson Discovery collections This tutorial uses the Watson Discovery pre-enriched news collection, but you can try this on your private discovery collections. Protect your customer data with relevant test data Reduce a company’s data risk in non-production data environments by creating fictitious, yet relevant test data. Companies that share data can’t ignore governance Everyone wants to access and create data. Find out how top companies use MDM to do it successfully. Send SMF data directly to the IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator If you use IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator and Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS, you can directly load data, without storing data in Db2 tables. With this method, you can save CPU and space on expensive storage while you store and query data over a longer period at a more detailed level. Learn how with this tutorial. Case study: A mobile personal assistant for diabetes patients built using Streams Streams partnered with Medtronic to create SugarIQ, a mobile personal assistant that helps people with diabetes make better decisions. Skills Gateway embraces IBM New Collar Initiative Much of today's IT work requires specific skills and knowledge, but may not require a university degree. Here is where IBM's New Collar Initiatives fit in: New Collar focuses on skills (not degrees earned) around emerging technologies. Popular videos Master your data with data governance: Enable unified governance across your organization for privacy and protection. In-place data analysis with IBM Software Defined Storage: Analyze file AND object data in-place with no data transfer or data movement. Events MDM and Data Governance Summit 10-12 October, New York, New York ARMA 2017 15-17 October, Orlando, Florida Development simplified: A workshop for app developers and DBAs 17 October, Raleigh, North Carolina Development simplified: A workshop for app developers and DBAs 19 October, Minneapolis, MN Easy predictive chatbot with Watson Conversation and Watson Machine Learning 19 October 19 at 12:00 PST Fast track your data - Live from New York On demand replay Big Data & Analytics resources Data and Analytics hub Data and analytics technical library Data science and cognitive computing courses IBM Analytics website structured by platform, technology, and industry IBM Analytics education videos IBM Training and Skills: Analytics IBM Open for Data webinar series and replays IBM data for developers developerWorks courses Follow developerWorks     Join a community New: IBM Insights Forum to impact technology trends Cloud data services developer center BigInsights for Apache Hadoop developer center SPSS predictive analytics developer center IT operations analytics developer center IBM Streams developer center IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub blogs Subscriptions developerWorks newsletters ›› Forward to a friend You provided IBM with your email address so that we could keep you informed of important events and new business solutions. Please visit IBM Online Privacy for more information on the usage of your personal information by IBM. This email was sent in response to your request to receive the developerWorks Big Data Newsletter. If you no longer want to receive the developerWorks Big Data Newsletter, please unsubscribe here.