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" After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in addition to teaching and working on research. I built a program that crawled job boards to determine which skills employers value, which helped Johnson & Wales explore ways to improve its curriculum. "

" A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work. "

" A lot of people seem to think that data science is just a process of adding up a bunch of data and looking at the results, but that's actually not at all what the process is. "

" As your competitors learn more, you'll need to learn, too. "

" Companies that rely on licensing a proprietary dataset should expect to be outpaced by competitors using modern data collection techniques and more frequent updates and greater accuracy. "

" Cool innovation might happen in startups, but they often lack the resources or the deep expertise in the problems they want to address. "

" Creating things that people want to tie into their identity is the best way to make them spread. "

" Data is a tool for enhancing intuition. "

" Data science is the combination of analytics and the development of new algorithms. "

" Data science requires having that cultural space to experiment and work on things that might fail. "

" Deep learning allows you to create predictive models at a level of quality and sophistication that was previously out of reach. And so deep learning also enhances the product function of data science because it can generate new product opportunities. "

" Don't be afraid to push your company in the direction you think is right - you'll either be fired or promoted, and either outcome will end up just fine. "

" Don't take advice you see on the Internet too seriously! "

" Even smaller companies are putting resources behind their analytics teams in the same way they put resources behind engineering and product teams. There are some great tools out there that allow even tiny businesses to use data effectively. "

" Everyone likes taking their own photos and seeing themselves reflected back. "

" I believe there are a lot of inefficiencies in the way technical innovation happens. "

" I decided that since I was trying to teach 'style' of thinking in science and engineering, and 'style' is an art, I should therefore copy the methods of teaching used for the other arts - once the fundamentals have been learned. "

" I don't actually, as a general policy, block any sort of cookies. I keep them all turned on, and that's because I'm willing to make the tradeoff that I let companies gather this information about me in return for a better experience. "

" If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for long. "

" I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms. "

" I hope that, in the future, data is used to empower people and not just for marketing purposes. "

" I joined bit.ly as chief scientist in October of 2009. The company is a URL-shortener and content-sharing platform; we provide tools for people to share and track links on the Internet. "

" I'm a huge fan of the liberal arts approach of teaching you to think, analyze, and communicate, then sending you out into the world to cause trouble. "

" I'm really curious about people - what their desires and interests are - and bit.ly's data tell me that. It gives me an unprecedented window into human communication and behavior. "

" I'm very lucky to work at bitly, with a data set that allows us to explore human social behavior at the scale of human social behavior. "

" In some ways, chocolate chip cookie recipes are my favorite algorithms. You put a bunch of bad-for-you stuff in a bowl and get a delicious result. "

" In tech entrepreneurship, even a lot of hack events tend to be overly commercial in that they're designed to produce companies. "

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" I think e-mail should be sorted by importance, not by time. "

" I think of 'data science' as a flag that was planted at the intersection of several different disciplines that have not always existed in the same place. Statistics, computer science, domain expertise, and what I usually call 'hacking,' though I don't mean the 'evil' kind of hacking. "

" I think we need more ambition about using our data to make our lives better. "

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