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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Creating things that people want to tie into their identity is the best way to make them spread. "

" Data is a tool for enhancing intuition. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "