Tag: jobs
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Qualifications to Become a Data Analyst
Data Analysis as a career Do you know which the sexiest job of the 21st Century is? As per the Harvard Business Review, it is Data Scientist. Though, technically, Data Scientists are a few notches above Data Analysts, becoming a Data Analyst makes it easier for you to become a Data Scientist. Picking a career…
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3 Tips for Data Science Interviews
1. Be Honest Try not to exaggerate your skills. If the job sounds more engineering focused than you are wanting, be honest and say that. Data Science is getting very broad and you don’t want to get in a position that is a bad fit. You often sound worse when you try to explain something…
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Practice Makes Perfect – Free Data Science Interviews
Technical Interviews are challenging, and Pramp provides a free online environment for practicing a data science interview
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Big Data Jobs Are Booming…And So Are the Salaries
Lots of Big Data Jobs iCrunchData, one of the most popular data science job sites, keeps an index of the data science job market. Recently, the index just passed 500,000 big data jobs posted online. That is a phenomenal number, and it just goes to show the massive need for more people with big data…
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Wanna be a Data Scientist at the CIA?
The Central Intelligence Agency is hiring data scientists. They appear to be hiring at multiple levels. Unfortunately, the position description is quite vague. It is tough to know exactly what the CIA is looking for and technologies are currently being used at the CIA. Data Scientist Job Posting at the CIA
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Kaggle Launches New Products
If you follow the blog, you probably know I am a big fan of Kaggle. Just last week, they announced the launch of 2 new products. Kaggle Recruit In this competition, the participants are not competing for a cash prize but rather a job interview with a specific company. Currently, Facebook is hosting the first…
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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 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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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…