If you are a recent graduate or someone preparing for your first data scientist position, then here are some tips to help you ace your interview!…

Machine learning has the ability to automate a lot of jobs in the future. It is very easy to talk about this automation when it isn't your job that will be automated. But the scary part is that there are a lot of highly skilled jobs that will also face some type of automation in the future as well. When you are talking about your own job potentially being automated, it becomes less abstract and more real. It is very easy to say go ahead and automate jobs, until it is your own that is being…

The below is advice I was asked for by a friend in astronomy looking to tailor their academic CV for data science roles when I was organising our team recruitment at Royal Mail, posted on my LinkedIn here. I thought it might be useful for other astronomers or, more generally, academics looking to make a similar transition.

The main comment I have is that you're…

And what we can do about it…

If there’s one tool you cannot afford to miss in your marketing toolkit, it is Data Analytics.

With new technologies and platform entering the market every day, it is increasingly becoming a challenge to justify the ROI for the expenditure on each platform.

While some debate that it might create the best opportunity to employ skilled people others state that it might be the worst state of glaring inequality plagued…

Machine intelligence recruited to defend our planet.

Applied Research Accelerator: Mavericks Lab

Mavericks Lab is looking for Planetary Scientists and Data Scientists with a passion for machine learning to develop…

Before you even start writing your CV, it is important to understand what the objective of your CV actually is…



The answer should be to secure you an interview - that’s it. Your CV alone will not land you that dream position although it is a very important document in the process.

We’ve heard clients say, “I can tell a good applicant from a CV” Well, in fact, they can’t. Whilst a good CV will definitely help identify an applicant worth interviewing, it is…

What is the profession of data science really about? How does one best become a data scientist or grow a career as one? What does the Data Science Central community think about these questions? (Please chime in!)

We’ve all read about the shortage of data scientists from McKinsey, heard about…

Bob Muenchen's very useful work on this topic, SAS Dominates Analytics Job Market; R up 42% sent me back to some 2012 work we did at Statistics.com on the subject of what employers are looking for in the way of analytics skills.  First, our main results:

1.  Our numbers showed a much less SAS-dominant world:  1.92 SAS jobs for every R job.  Bob had found the ratio to…

McKinsey India estimates that the country needs at least 150,000 new data wizards to come to grips with Big Data. McKinsey Global estimated the US itself had a shortage of between 140,000 and 190,000 people with deep data analysis skills and another 1.5 million managers, which was hampering its Big Data projects.

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