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" It's a huge competitive advantage to see in real time what's happening with your data. "
Hilary Mason
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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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" I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms. "
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" The job of the data scientist is to ask the right questions. "
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" I believe there are a lot of inefficiencies in the way technical innovation happens. "
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" Data is a tool for enhancing intuition. "
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" To gain the competitive edge, companies must master the ability to innovate. "
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" Teaching someone to program is like giving them a superpower. "
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" Everyone likes taking their own photos and seeing themselves reflected back. "
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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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" I wish I'd known more about how to build a startup when I was younger. "
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" 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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" Creating things that people want to tie into their identity is the best way to make them spread. "
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Identity
" 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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Push
Knowledge
" 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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You
World
" Value experiences by how much you're learning, and if you're aren't learning, move on. "
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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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" 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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Us
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" Nobody really cares about short links, but people do care about saving and sharing content. "
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Nobody
Short
" 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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" It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before. "
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Build
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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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People
Internet
Track
" 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 hope that, in the future, data is used to empower people and not just for marketing purposes. "
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Hope
" 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
People
" 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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" I think we need more ambition about using our data to make our lives better. "
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Need
" 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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Deep
" 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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" 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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