You’re a startup founder. You know you need to have a “data play” (or worse, “AI play”). Investors and clients are asking about machine learning (or worse, deep learning). The question is […]
How not to hire your first data scientist
5 Ways To Reduce The Chances Of Hiring Wrong Data Scientist
Hiring the wrong candidate can be an expensive affair. Not just in terms of the onboarding expenses, but long-term repercussions such as project delays, below average results, increased attrition rates and others. […]
How To Attract And Retain The Important, But Elusive, Data Scientist
As a relatively new role, “data guru” is a challenging job specification to draft for. Organisations are seeking highly-skilled and well-educated individuals to fulfil the position but, the truth is, the data […]
Data Scientists Need To Get Better About Communicating Uncertainty And Risk In Their Results
Data is truth and algorithms uncover that single indisputable truth. Those two beliefs lie at the center of the data science revolution, yet they are absolutely wrong. Data merely constructs an artificial […]
Rise of the citizen data scientist
Innovative technology is transforming the way we consume data and is creating a new type of user within organizations: the citizen data scientist. This capability emerges from a new breed of artificial […]
Ask these 4 important questions before hiring a data scientist
When hiring a data scientist there are a few things that you need to take into account. Yuvrajsinh Vaghela presents four important questions that will help you hire the perfect data scientist […]
6 Big Data Solutions for Small Businesses
Ancient ruins are sometimes discovered after long years investigating regions of the world covered by dense jungle or giant forests. The feeling of an archaeologist at that moment of discovery gives a […]
The Rise of the Citizen Data Scientist: How Humanized Machine Learning Is Augmenting Human Intelligence
IDC estimates worldwide data volume is set to rise by 61% between 2018 and 2025 – eventually reaching 175 zettabytes – with much of this generated by businesses. So how can this […]
Don’t Just Be A Data Scientist, Be A Data Storyteller
Time and again, data science has proven that it has the capability to take businesses to a whole new level. Organisations across the world are leveraging the superpowers of data. But what’s […]
What New Data Scientists Need to Know for Their First Job
I’m a lead data scientist at the consulting firm and federal contracting giant Booz Allen Hamilton—a leader in the analytics services space. I oversee a small team of data scientists—some of whom […]
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