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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. "

Hilary Mason

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Science

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

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You

Learning

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

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

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

" People share things that make them look good. "

Hilary Mason

Good

People

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

Hilary Mason

How

Build

" 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. "

" 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. "

Hilary Mason

Communication

Data

" 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. "

" 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. "

Hilary Mason

Data

Modern

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

Hilary Mason

Experience

Better

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

Hilary Mason

Technology

Problem

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

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

Hilary Mason

Your

You

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

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

" My Grinnell education didn't prepare me directly for the work that I'm doing, but it did give me the tools that I needed to focus my curiosity. "

Hilary Mason

Focus

Curiosity

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Hilary Mason

Bowl

Result

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "