Category Archives: Data Scientists

The $250K Median Salary of Data Scientists Managers is Why Google and Salesforce Invested $20B in Self-Service Data Science

Posted on June 25, 2019 by

Earlier this month, Salesforce announced the acquisition of data visualization and analytics leader Tableau for $15.7 billion and Google announced the acquisition of data discovery and analytics platform Looker for $2.6 billion. Both acquired companies will beef up the acquiring … Continue reading →

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Data Science Jobs: Required Skills

Posted on April 27, 2017 by

Source: Paysa

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What Data Scientists Like and Hate in their Jobs

Posted on April 26, 2017 by

Source: ZDNet and CrowdFlower

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The Evolution of Data Scientists, 2006-2016

Posted on October 26, 2016 by

Gaurav Vohra, CEO & Co-founder Jigsaw Academy: Here are my predictions for 2021. Machine learning and deep learning will become much more popular. More data and better processing power will enable a lot more analysis of different data. Those who … Continue reading →

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A Career in Data Science: Bob Rogers, Chief Data Scientist, Intel

Posted on August 7, 2016 by

  “Business leaders want ‘the answer,’” says Bob Rogers, Chief Data Scientist for Big Data Solutions at Intel. But data scientists must understand what “the answer” means in the specific business context and communicate the expected impact in the language … Continue reading →

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The New Data Scientist Venn Diagram

Posted on July 8, 2016 by

Stephan Kolassa on StackExchange: I still think that Hacking Skills, Math & Statistics Knowledge and Substantive Expertise (shortened to “Programming”, “Statistics” and “Business” for legibility) are important… but I think that the role of Communication is important, too. All the insights … Continue reading →

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The Data on Data Scientists (Infographic)

Posted on June 22, 2016 by

Source: Bob Hayes

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Where should you put your data scientists?

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Data Scientists Spend Most of Their Time Cleaning Data

Posted on May 1, 2016 by

A new survey of data scientists found that they spend most of their time massaging rather than mining or modeling data. Still, most are happy with having the sexiest job of the 21st century. The survey of about 80 data … Continue reading →

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Data Science Skills

Posted on February 23, 2016 by

Source: Bob Hayes

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