Category Archives: Data Science
Data Science at Zillow (Slideshare)
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Most In-Demand Data Science Skills
Source: CrowdFlower, based on “3500 relevant job openings from LinkedIn.” The folks at CrowdFlower excluded Excel from their list but noted that “that’s still something you see in myriad job listings. Old habits die hard.” Of course, data scientists don’t … Continue reading
What Data Scientists Like and Hate in their Jobs
Source: ZDNet and CrowdFlower
Data Science Jobs: Required Skills
Source: Paysa
5 Minutes on the Myth of the Data Science Platypus (Video)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f-XXR9j6m8&w=420&h=315] “Data science is in danger of being a fad. Data scientists need to build a reputation for providing actual value”–Kim Stedman
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DataKind’s Jack Porway on Data Science
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1RplOU0cQ&w=560&h=315] “If you leave an excited data scientist on his own to solve a problem, he’s going to solve his own problem – which is usually parking his car, or finding a bar to drink at. The trick that we … Continue reading
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Tom Davenport on Managing Data Scientists (Video)
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Where should you put your data scientists?
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The $250K Median Salary of Data Scientists Managers is Why Google and Salesforce Invested $20B in Self-Service Data Science
Earlier this month, Salesforce announced the acquisition of data visualization and analytics leader Tableau for $15.7 billion and Google announced the acquisition of data discovery and analytics platform Looker for $2.6 billion. Both acquired companies will beef up the acquiring … Continue reading
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