I saw a chart on Twitter, about the precursors to data science. I was surprised to see that their graph is missing many links and entities such as computer science. Data science contributes more to statistics than the other way around. This view is biased…

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In our previous article, we looked at some of the top locations in the US which had data scientists and also the top companies who existed in our LinkedIn Networks in the data science area.  In this article, we look at the top hirers of data…

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Data Science Central is one of the largest communities of analysts and data scientists in the world. We set about analyzing our database to understand a little bit more about the data scientist community. This is part of our continuing effort to give more insight into the data science industry.

Here is the distribution of members for the Top 50…

You sometimes hear from some old-fashioned statisticians that data scientists know nothing about statistics, and that they - the statisticians - know everything. Here we prove that actually it is the exact opposite: data science has its own core of statistical science research, in addition to data plumbing,…

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Interesting article by Karolina Alexiou.

Regarding mistake #1, I disagree. I do it all the time, and it's faster than finding, understanding, and fine-tuning a piece of code that will work for you, unless you are looking for something basic such as computing correlations for weighted observations. If you are good, your reinvented wheel will be better, implemented faster, more robust, and more customized than existing ones.…

In this article, we discuss various strategies used to generate exponential traffic growth, while preserving traffic quality, and user loyalty. Our growth hacking engine is a combination of

• Raw data science: getting the right data sets, leveraging them,
• Playing with various tools and API's: designing an automated machine-to-machine communication service between Hootsuite and Twitter / LinkedIn based on insights automatically distilled from the following data sources:…

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• Data Scientist Shares his Growth Hacking Secrets * - By Vincent…

Job titles for data scientists, including details about the simple but powerful classifier used to categorize these job titles. This analysis provides a break down per job category, and granular reports that you can download for free (job titles broken down per company, category and level), as well as NLP (natural language processing) source code. It is based on analyzing connections from multiple LinkedIn profiles - totaling more than 10,000 professionals. The first study…

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