Tutorials and Notes
Mixture models and EM algorithm (with very nice proof):
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/350/lectures/29/lecture-29.pdf
Logistic Regression (with detailed derivation):
http://sites.stat.psu.edu/~jiali/course/stat597e/notes2/logit.pdf
Blogs
ACM SIGMOD Blog
Lior Pachter
Stephen Wolfram
Datasets
Webscope | Yahoo Labs
Teleconference Tools
https://www.freeconferencecall.com/signin.asp
Frequently Used Links
Grant Proposal Form:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/faculty-staff-log-in/grant-proposal-form/