“Data Scientist” and other titles
Neil Saunders has an interesting (to me) blog post up this morning, with the title “Dumped on by data scientists.” He uses the use of “data scientist” in a Chronicle of Higher Ed article to rant a...
View ArticleOn “Analytics” and related fields
I recently attended the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research, aka “INFORMS Analytics 2011″, conference in Chicago. This deserves a little bit of an explanation. INFORMS is...
View ArticleData Science, Moore’s Law, and Moneyball
I’m fond of navel gazing, meta discussions, and so forth. I’ve recently written about inferring navel gazing from link data, and about the meaning of the “Analytics” buzzword. This post will be my...
View ArticleSurvey of Data Science / Analytics / Big Data / Applied Stats / Machine...
As I’ve discussed here before, there is a debate raging (ok, maybe not raging) about terms such as “data science”, “analytics”, “data mining”, and “big data”. What do they mean, how do they overlap,...
View Articleintegrating R with other systems
I just returned from the useR! 2012 conference for developers and users of R. One of the common themes to many of the presentations was integration of R-based statistical systems with other systems, be...
View ArticleCommunication and the Data Scientist
I recently gave a presentation on communication issues around the terms “Data Science” and “Data Scientist”, based in part on a survey that I did with my Meetup colleagues Marck and Sean. The basic...
View ArticleMore posts on the Data Community DC blog
For those people (or, more likely, 0 or 1 persons) who follow this blog to catch up on my professional thoughts: I’ve been doing a little bit of writing on the Data Community DC blog. Here are all my...
View ArticleWhy a Data Community is Like a Music Scene — Resources
On Monday, October 28th, 2013, I gave a 5-minute Ignite talk entitled “Why a Data Community is Like a Music Scene” at an event associated with the Strata conference. Here’s the video: And here are the...
View ArticleINFORMS Business Analytics 2014 Blog Posts
Earlier this year, I attended the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & Operations Research, in Boston. I was asked beforehand if I wanted to be a conference blogger, and for some reason I...
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Building a Complementary Data Science Team
This is an updated version of an article first posted on Medium on Nov. 23, 2015. I’ve disabled the links to the jobs, as those specific ones are no longer available. If you’re interested in a role at...
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Thoughts on Managing Data Science Team Workstreams (and a Shiny app)
This is an updated version of a post originally published on Medium on Jan. 28, 2016. I may have more to say about this sort of thing in the near future. There are different types of data scientists,...
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Simulating Rent Stabilization Policy at the National Day of Civic Hacking
This post was originally published on Medium on June 5, 2016. Yesterday was the 2016 National Day of Civic Hacking, a Code for America event that encourages people with technology and related skills...
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Patterns for Connecting Predictive Models to Software Products
This was originally published on Medium on June 21st, 2016. You’re a data scientist, and you’ve got a predictive model — great work! Now what? In many cases, you need to hook it up to some sort of...
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