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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. "
Hilary Mason
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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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" 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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" Data is a tool for enhancing intuition. "
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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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" Technology is giving companies superpowers to compete more intelligently and capture the data behind changing trends, expanding markets, and new opportunities. "
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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. "
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" Creating things that people want to tie into their identity is the best way to make them spread. "
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" It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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Work
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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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" Data science requires having that cultural space to experiment and work on things that might fail. "
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Data
" 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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Trouble
You
World
" 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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Science
Deep
" 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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Right
Direction
End
" 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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Process
" It turns out it's important to build a product and not just a bunch of data models. "
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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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" 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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Great
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Tools
" People share things that make them look good. "
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Share
People
" Nobody really cares about short links, but people do care about saving and sharing content. "
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Sharing
Nobody
Short
" 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. "
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School
Island
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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. "
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Information
Line
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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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" It's rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology. "
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" 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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" 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
" I think we need more ambition about using our data to make our lives better. "
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" I wish I'd known more about how to build a startup when I was younger. "
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" To gain the competitive edge, companies must master the ability to innovate. "
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