Category Archives: Data Science
A Career in Data Science: Bob Rogers, Chief Data Scientist, Intel
“Business leaders want ‘the answer,’” says Bob Rogers, Chief Data Scientist for Big Data Solutions at Intel. But data scientists must understand what “the answer” means in the specific business context and communicate the expected impact in the language … Continue reading
Top 10 Programming Languages 2016
IEEE Spectrum: After two years in second place, C has finally edged out Java for the top spot. Staying in the top five, Python has swapped places with C++ to take the No. 3 position, and C# has fallen out … Continue reading
The New Data Scientist Venn Diagram
Stephan Kolassa on StackExchange: I still think that Hacking Skills, Math & Statistics Knowledge and Substantive Expertise (shortened to “Programming”, “Statistics” and “Business” for legibility) are important… but I think that the role of Communication is important, too. All the insights … Continue reading
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The Data on Data Scientists (Infographic)
Source: Bob Hayes
Where should you put your data scientists?
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Data Scientists Still Hot, Salaries Cool Off
The third annual Burtch Works Study: Salaries of Data Scientists April 2016 is out, documenting the continuation of a very favorable market for those with the sexiest job of the 21st century. However, the salaries of data scientists appear to be … Continue reading
Data Scientists Spend Most of Their Time Cleaning Data
A new survey of data scientists found that they spend most of their time massaging rather than mining or modeling data. Still, most are happy with having the sexiest job of the 21st century. The survey of about 80 data … Continue reading
5 Origins of Data Science
Source: Impact of Big Data on Analytics
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Data visualization: Plotting life expectancy against income for 200 countries over 200 years
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo?rel=0] Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has … Continue reading