Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" People share things that make them look good. "
Hilary Mason
Good
Share
People
Related Quotes:
" 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
Me
" In tech entrepreneurship, even a lot of hack events tend to be overly commercial in that they're designed to produce companies. "
Hilary Mason
Events
Commercial
Entrepreneurship
" 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
Me
" Nobody really cares about short links, but people do care about saving and sharing content. "
Hilary Mason
Sharing
Nobody
Short
" Data is a tool for enhancing intuition. "
Hilary Mason
Data
Enhancing
Intuition
" As your competitors learn more, you'll need to learn, too. "
Hilary Mason
More
Your
You
" Everyone likes taking their own photos and seeing themselves reflected back. "
Hilary Mason
Everyone
Back
Seeing
" Value experiences by how much you're learning, and if you're aren't learning, move on. "
Hilary Mason
Value
How
Learning
" I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms. "
Hilary Mason
Always
Been
Computer
" 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. "
Hilary Mason
Information
Line
People
" It's a huge competitive advantage to see in real time what's happening with your data. "
Hilary Mason
Your
See
Time
" I hope that, in the future, data is used to empower people and not just for marketing purposes. "
Hilary Mason
Data
Future
Hope
" Data science requires having that cultural space to experiment and work on things that might fail. "
Hilary Mason
Things
Science
Data
" 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. "
Hilary Mason
People
Internet
Track
" The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before. "
Hilary Mason
World
Data
Know
" 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. "
Hilary Mason
Data
Job
Look
" 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. "
Hilary Mason
Weird
Know
I Am
" 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. "
Hilary Mason
Right
Direction
End
" 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. "
Hilary Mason
School
Island
Job
" I believe there are a lot of inefficiencies in the way technical innovation happens. "
Hilary Mason
Innovation
Lot
Way
" 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. "
Hilary Mason
Science
Think
Process
" 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
Cookie
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. "
Hilary Mason
Difficult
Pictures
People
" 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. "
Hilary Mason
Trouble
You
World
" It's rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology. "
Hilary Mason
Technology
More
Problem
" The job of the data scientist is to ask the right questions. "
Hilary Mason
Right
Data
Ask
" I think we need more ambition about using our data to make our lives better. "
Hilary Mason
Better
Data
Need
" 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. "
Hilary Mason
Work
Us
Behavior
" 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. "
Hilary Mason
Great
Way
Tools
" Technology is giving companies superpowers to compete more intelligently and capture the data behind changing trends, expanding markets, and new opportunities. "
Hilary Mason
Data
Technology
Giving