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

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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. "

" People share things that make them look good. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before. "

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

" To gain the competitive edge, companies must master the ability to innovate. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I wish I'd known more about how to build a startup when I was younger. "

" 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. "

" It's rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Entrepreneurship

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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