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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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" When you start at Bitly, you go through this emotional cycle, where first you go, 'Oh my God, this data is amazing.' But then you start looking at it, and you conclude that humanity is completely doomed. Because what people read is cats and Bieber and celebrity gossip and that stuff. "

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" It's easy to find people who can make pretty pictures, and it's easy to find people who can do math. But it's difficult to find people who can do both. "

" 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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" The job of the data scientist is to ask the right questions. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You really need to have a lot of empathy for the work you're doing and the people who you're ultimately trying to help, whether that's a business colleague, a boss, or, ultimately, the user of the software you're building. "

" It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before. "

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

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

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

" Technology is giving companies superpowers to compete more intelligently and capture the data behind changing trends, expanding markets, and new opportunities. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" It's a huge competitive advantage to see in real time what's happening with your data. "

" Value experiences by how much you're learning, and if you're aren't learning, move on. "

" 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. "

" 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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Better

" 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'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. "

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" People share things that make them look good. "

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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. "

" Nobody really cares about short links, but people do care about saving and sharing content. "

" It turns out it's important to build a product and not just a bunch of data models. "

" Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go. "

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