Category Archives: Data Scientists
Big Data Concerns (Survey)
Base: 417 respondents at organizations using or planning to deploy data analytics, BI or statistical analysis software Data: InformationWeek 2013 Analytics, Business Intelligence and Information Management Survey of 541 business technology professionals, October 2012
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Big Data & Data Science: What Does a Data Scientist Do?
[slideshare id=16190193&w=427&h=356&sc=no] Big Data [sorry] & Data Science: What Does a Data Scientist Do? from Data Science London
Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier, authors of the just-published Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, reacted sharply when I asked them if they are cheerleaders for big data, as one reviewer implied. ”We … Continue reading
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 Yael Garten on Data Science Goes Mobile (Video)
Yael Garten at Strata 2013 on big data on small devices [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17wZa6jF_hc]
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
Big Data Commentary Roundup
Katie Baker in Grantland: “After spending two days and nights [at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference] talking and thinking and hearing about data visualization and correlation coefficients and Big Data… and things like ‘Dequantizing the Player Draft Using Extreme … 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 First Data Scientist on the Evolution of Data Science and the Ever-Changing American Voter
Norman Nie was not surprised by the accurate predictions of the presidential elections’ results from Nate Silver and others. “A lot of it,” he told me recently, “is good statistics and good science and good statistical programming packages.” The increasing … Continue reading
How the Obama Campaign Learned from Republicans How to Learn Our Secrets
Last February, Forbes’ Kashmir Hill got our attention (over 1.9 million views by now) by pulling a golden big data nugget—“How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did”—from a long New York Times article by … Continue reading
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