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About GilPress

I'm Managing Partner at gPress, a marketing, publishing, research and education consultancy. Also a Senior Contributor forbes.com/sites/gilpress/. Previously, I held senior marketing and research management positions at NORC, DEC and EMC. Most recently, I was Senior Director, Thought Leadership Marketing at EMC, where I launched the Big Data conversation with the “How Much Information?” study (2000 with UC Berkeley) and the Digital Universe study (2007 with IDC). Twitter: @GilPress

Big Data Analytics and Data Science at Netflix (Video)

Posted on March 15, 2013 by GilPress

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 →

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LinkedIn’s Daniel Tunkelang on How to Interview a Data Scientist

Posted on March 7, 2013 by GilPress

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 →

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Cool Data Scientists on Campus

Posted on March 2, 2013 by GilPress

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 →

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Vincent Granville’s 66 job interview questions for data scientists

Posted on February 15, 2013 by GilPress

  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 →

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The Big Data Explosion (Infographic)

Posted on February 4, 2013 by GilPress

Lotsa data in this Infographic about data growth

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Data Science at Netflix with Elastic MapReduce

Posted on December 24, 2012 by GilPress

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGcZ7WVx6EI]

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DJ Patil at LeWeb, December 2012

Posted on December 14, 2012 by GilPress

[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]

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Past Courses in Big Data Analytics and Data Science: Content Online

Posted on December 14, 2012 by GilPress

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 →

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Big Data Quotes of the Week: December 1, 2012

Posted on December 1, 2012 by GilPress

“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 →

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Big Data Quotes of the Week

Posted on November 24, 2012 by GilPress

“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 →

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