Data scientist
The world of big data and data science can often seem complex or even arcane from the outside looking in. In business, a lot of people by now probably understand the basics of what Big Data analysis involves – collecting the ever growing amount of data we are generating, and using it to come up with meaningful
This is the preface to Eric Siegel’s newly-released Revised and Updated edition of Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die—available in paperback, e-book, and audiobook. This preface is also available as a...
Would skipping breakfast kill you? Not necessarily—but confusing correlation and causation might. Find out why in this article, originally published in Quartz and adapted from Eric Siegel’s recently-released Revised and Updated, edition of Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who...
As we look ahead and see 2016 unfurling in front of us, the team at Beyond the Arc wanted to play the role of #stylespotter. What’s the “new black” for companies focused on improving customer experience? We’re...
By: John Kelly, Predictive Analytics Practice Lead, Berkeley Research Group
Article originally published at www.business2community.com
“Data scientist” is a popular role these days. Everyone seems to have one — or claims to be one. But how do executives know whether they have the “real thing” and how that value is best employed?...
Weary from an all-night coding effort, and rushed by the looming 6:42PM deadline, Lester Mackey searched franticly for the proper prediction file to submit. Lester was a member of “The Ensemble”—a large coalition of data scientists who...
More organizations than ever before are putting the right data on the right platform for the right reason. This new level of data efficiency greatly reduces – and, in the long run, may ultimately eliminate – the...
Mobile technology as part of the Big Data discussion is enabling data miners/data scientists to conduct analytics on information on the customer’s experience within a given location which otherwise was unavailable up until a few years ago....
Will there be enough data scientists in the future? The question sounds like a subplot for a science fiction film, but it has received much attention over the past few years due to the forecast of a...
When hiring data scientists, people tend to focus primarily on technical qualifications. It’s hard to find candidates who have the right mix of computational and statistical skills. But what’s even harder is finding people who have those...
