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" Cool innovation might happen in startups, but they often lack the resources or the deep expertise in the problems they want to address. "
Hilary Mason
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My job is to analyze our data set to understand it and build products on it. I look at raw data, do the math to clean it up, and build systems to make it easy to understand. "
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" It's a huge competitive advantage to see in real time what's happening with your data. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Often, people think that individual data is the most valuable thing they can collect. But it's not useful to know what I am doing or where I am, unless you're particularly interested in me, which is weird. But it is very useful to know what a population of people are doing. "
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" 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. "
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Result
" Nobody really cares about short links, but people do care about saving and sharing content. "
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Nobody
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" As your competitors learn more, you'll need to learn, too. "
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" The job of the data scientist is to ask the right questions. "
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" I wish I'd known more about how to build a startup when I was younger. "
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How
Build
" Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go. "
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Go
You
Learning
" People share things that make them look good. "
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" Data is a tool for enhancing intuition. "
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" Everyone likes taking their own photos and seeing themselves reflected back. "
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" I hope that, in the future, data is used to empower people and not just for marketing purposes. "
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" Value experiences by how much you're learning, and if you're aren't learning, move on. "
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" The sender and subject line are actually the most important parts of an e-mail because people tend to put more important information in the subject. "
Hilary Mason
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Line
People
" I think we need more ambition about using our data to make our lives better. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Me
" Don't take advice you see on the Internet too seriously! "
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" 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. "
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