Tag: data scientist
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The First Ever Data Scientist
It’s probably not who you think. It’s not DJ Patil or Hilary Mason. The first data scientist was Tobias Mayer. Who? Yeah, that’s exactly right, I had never heard of him either. Thankfully, John Rauser, a Data Scientist at Amazon, gave a great talk about this person at Strata New York 2011. Well, Tobias was…
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Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity | McKinsey & Company
Big Data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity | McKinsey Global Institute | Technology & Innovation | McKinsey & Company. This report by McKinsey & Company is frequently referenced, so I thought I should post a link to it. It includes the following quote about the lack of talent to fill Big Data…
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Data Scientists: The New Rock Stars of the Tech World
Data Scientists: The New Rock Stars of the Tech World. Troy Sadkowsky of DataScientists.net conducted a very nice interview with Jake Porway of the NY Times R&D Lab and Data Without Borders. Here are some of the questions that got answered. Why Data Scientists are Tech’s Rock Stars? What does a Data Scientist do? How…
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Do You Need College To Be A Data Scientist?
With some of the top tech entrepreneurs in the U.S. either dropping out of college or not attending, there is some debate about whether college is the right choice or not. This post will focus on college for data science. However, for college in general, if you know what you want to study, then college…
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Data Scientist Job Analysis
A few weeks ago, I posted 16 Companies Hiring Data Scientists Right Now. I decided to do a bit of analysis on the job posts, so I took all the job posting and compiled them into one file. The Problem I wanted to determine 2 things: What words occurred most often in the job posts?…
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Use Data Science to Help The World (Data Without Borders)
Data Without Borders Jake Porway started Data Without Borders because he attended a hack-a-thon and the groups came up with apps that didn’t really better the world very much. I believe he used the word, “unfulfilling” to describe the apps. He decided to create a way to provide organizations (Government or non-profit) with access to…
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Natural Language Processing Starts Today
The Coursera Natural Language Processing course officially starts today. Sign up and start learning.
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16 Companies Hiring Data Scientists Right Now
Data Scientist is the hot new job for 2012. Does this job really exist? Who hires these people? Are companies currently hiring? The answers are: yes, lots of companies, and yes. I decided to spend last night looking for companies that are currently hiring data scientists. It did not take long to compile a pretty…
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Data Scientist – Career of the Future
Data Scientist – Career of the Future This link provides a great Infographic about data scientist career opportunities.
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What Makes a Good Data Scientist?
Jeremy Howard is the Chief Scientist at Kaggle. At the end of this interview, from the Strata Conference 2012, he identified 4 simple traits that a data scientist needs. Creativity Open-mindedness Tenacity A Good Skillset Jeremy Howard of Kaggle at Strata 2012 In this brief interview he covers a range of other data science topics:…
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Need A Data Scientist? Probably
In the article Do you need a data scientist?, the following questions get answered: What data scientist’s do? Who makes a good data scientist? When is the right time to hire a data scientist? Hopefully, I will discuss each of these questions in more detail in a later blog post. To answer the question, if…
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What is a data scientist?
If I am going to create a blog about becoming a data scientist, I must at least provide some type of definition. One of the best definitions I have read is by Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist at Bit.ly, A data scientist is someone who can obtain, scrub, explore, model and interpret data, blending hacking, statistics,…