Author Archives: GilPress
Big Data Analytics and Data Science at Netflix (Video)
Chris Pouliot, the Director of Analytics and Algorithms at Netflix: “…my team does not only personalizations for movies, but we also deal with content demand prediction. Helping our buyer down in Beverly Hills figure out how much do we pay … Continue reading
LinkedIn’s Daniel Tunkelang on How to Interview a Data Scientist
Tunkelang: The O’Reilly Strata Conference brings together an incredible community of people working on big data. This year, I decided to do something different for my presentation. Rather than talk about science or technology, I addressed the practical problem of interviewing the candidates … Continue reading
Cool Data Scientists on Campus
Hal Varian: “Data availability is going to continue to grow. To make that data useful is a challenge. It’s generally going to require human beings to do it.” Source: Carl Bialik, “Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus,” The Wall … Continue reading
Vincent Granville’s 66 job interview questions for data scientists
What is the biggest data set that you processed, and how did you process it, what were the results? Tell me two success stories about your analytic or computer science projects? How was lift (or success) measured? What is: … Continue reading
The Big Data Explosion (Infographic)
Lotsa data in this Infographic about data growth
Data Science at Netflix with Elastic MapReduce
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGcZ7WVx6EI]
DJ Patil at LeWeb, December 2012
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_CYKk8q1Ao] Summary of the presentation by Ben Rooney here Update: Ben Rooney interviews DJ Patil [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LtzMhr0ZCM]
Past Courses in Big Data Analytics and Data Science: Content Online
Past Courses in Big Data Analytics and Data Science Content Online Analyzing Big Data with Twitter (UC Berkeley, School of Information) (Fall 2012) Introduction to Data Science (Columbia University, Statistics Department) (Fall 2012 Introduction to Data Science (UC Berkeley, Computer Science) (Spring … Continue reading
Big Data Quotes of the Week: December 1, 2012
“Let us cultivate the mathematical sciences with ardor, without wanting to extend them beyond their domain; and let us not imagine that one can attack history with formulas, nor give sanction to morality through theories of algebra or the integral … Continue reading
Big Data Quotes of the Week
“Data is everywhere. It exists. We’re just pulling it into one place and our goal is to make it consumable for teachers”–Fahad Hassan, Always Prepped “A lot of people are changing their title, but they’re not really data scientists, and … Continue reading