by Angela Guess Tom Foremski recently wrote in ZDnet, “Romantic relationships, and a person’s relationship with their work, would seem to be too distant and the experience too different to be comparable, yet eHarmony believes its success with the lonely can be put to use to make happier workplaces, and match people with jobs they […]
How to Be a Data Scientist: Data Science Skill Development
To the wide business community, a Data Scientist is one of those “data magicians,” who can acquire disparate data masses from diverse business functions; clean, massage, organize, and prepare the data; and, then exploit their inherent skills in mathematics, statistics, and Machine Learning to uncover hidden business insights and intelligence. The data used by a […]
Web-Scraping for Data Science – Part 1
Click to learn more about Steve Miller. Scraping data from the web is a task that’s essential to the data scientist’s hacking portfolio. The complexity of work ranges from sophisticated crawling that mandates understanding the structure of dynamic web pages along with command of css and/or xpath, to the more mundane “just grabbing a table […]
Why Data Storytelling is an Essential Data Science Skill
by Angela Guess Brent Dykes recently wrote in Forbes, “Once your business has started collecting and combining all kinds of data, the next elusive step is to extract value from it… As data becomes increasingly ubiquitous, companies are desperately searching for talent with these data skills. LinkedIn recently reported data analysis is one of the […]
Toyota Launches Toyota Connected, New Data Science Unit
by Angela Guess Larry Dignan reports in ZDnet, “Toyota said it will launch a separate unit called Toyota Connected to focus on user experience, product development and data science via Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. The move comes as many automakers are forming units to focus on mobility services, technology applications, analytics and services. In March, […]
Is Data Science Better as a Team Sport?
by Angela Guess Alex Woodie recently wrote in Datanami, “Shakespeare once pondered the nature of names, pointing out that ‘a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.’ For data scientists, the meaning behind the title is not just an epistemological exercise, but a practical problem that has consequences upon that delicate dance between […]
Data Science Education at Rutgers: A Business-Oriented Approach
Most students who study Data Science probably don’t want to become academics. They want to become working professionals who apply their analytical skills to solving real business problems. The professional master’s degree offered at Rutgers University, a Master of Business and Science in Analytics and Data Science, emphasizes both business studies and Data Science education […]
How to Search for a Data Science Job
by Angela Guess IT Business Edge recently wrote, “Every day, organizations are creating more and more data, yet struggling to tap into and ultimately benefit from this vast amount of information due to the lack of talent available in the field. A study from McKinsey found that the U.S. alone could face a shortage of […]
Crowdsourcing from Data Science Bowl Result in Heart Disease Diagnosis Algorithm
by Angela Guess A new article out of the companies reports, “With the close of the second annual Data Science Bowl, Booz Allen Hamilton and Kaggle proved yet again that crowdsourced solutions can be used to solve some of our world’s most complex problems. This year, the focus was on heart health – an issue of […]
The 3 Roles of a Data Scientist
by Angela Guess Ed Jones recently wrote in InfoQ, “Already crowned as the best job in America for 2016, the definition and skill set required to be a data scientist is in a constant state of flux… Dave Holtz writes that the title ‘data scientist’ is often used as a blanket title to describe a […]