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Most Influential Data Scientists (Two Lists)

Most Influential Data Scientists (Two Lists)

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While I was busy playing around with how to do a data visualisation on Twitter’s most influential data scientists, @kdnuggets went and posted this blog post about the exact same subject (dated 2012). But that’s cool, cos it saved me a bit of a job… (although I still need to do the learning exercise anyway, and update it to the list of influencers today, so that project’s still a work in progress).

The Twitter list (2012):
But in the meantime, here’s the list as produced by Gilad Lotan (@gilgul) based on Twitter bios containing relevant keywords (original post here) – the bios shown are taken from current Twitter bios: [Read more…] about Most Influential Data Scientists (Two Lists)

How Data Becomes Knowledge

How Data Becomes Knowledge

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knowledgeData questions and data analysis:
The journey from raw data to actionable knowledge takes us through various stages, each with a different kind of question we can ask of and analysis we can perform on that data, ranging from the simplest through to the very complex. But it will always begin with the question.

Descriptive analysis
This is the simplest kind of analysis, which describes some event or data set in order to get a better understanding of what has happened (descriptive step) and why it happened (interpretive step). This kind of analysis won’t be used to generate decisions as its difficult to generalise from the descriptive data, but is used instead to support understanding. [Read more…] about How Data Becomes Knowledge

Finding My Ideal Job

Finding My Ideal Job

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finding-my-ideal-jobGrowth Analyst
TransferWise
London

Job description
TransferWise is the clever new way to move money between countries. Co-founded by Skype’s first employee and backed by some of planet’s most experienced innovators, including Sir Richard Branson and PayPal founder Peter Thiel, we’re disrupting the world of international money transfer. That means flipping a gazillion dollar industry on its head and taking power away from banks and the establishment. [Read more…] about Finding My Ideal Job

Tools for Data Science

Tools for Data Science

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data-treeAn Update on Where I’m At Mentally/Emotionally:

Returning to the Data Science stream of my Personal Training Plan, I need to get set up with various tools and online accounts so I can start to go deeper into my studies. As I mentioned when I started this stream, my initial thoughts were of trepidation at signing up and entering into this new world – I felt intimidated by it all. So much so that I did a quick 90 degree detour into Business Analytics where I feel much more comfortable, being on familiar ground.

But I’m also reminded of how motivated I feel to change my career trajectory, and my confidence that this  is possible to do, even now in my late 40’s. And I’ve been given some great opportunities by the company I work at to move in a more systems-and data-oriented direction. I feel very lucky about that. So I’m grabbing that opportunity with both hands. Coupled with my self-led learning (which is, of course, heavily supported by various MOOC’s provided by so many excellent educational institutions) I am sure I can make this work out in the best possible way for me. [Read more…] about Tools for Data Science

Introduction to Data Science

Introduction to Data Science

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launchPTP 5. Data Science Stream / A. Introduction to data science

PTP Outcomes:
Learn about the history of data science, where it’s come from, where it’s going to
Get an overview of the main principles, methods and applications of data science
Understand how data scientists develop insights from raw data, and how they present those insights to others
Become familiar with the most important tools, languages, platforms being used by data scientists
Learn about the fundamentals of data engineering

Some thoughts before I being
My Personalised Training Plan has been set after reasonably extensive research online, taking account of topics covered by various online and offline schools/courses, the advice of Analytics Vidhya and Ajit Jaokar on how to move into a data science career, as well as a review of key skills required by data scientists based on current jobs advertised online (e.g. on LinkedIn). [Read more…] about Introduction to Data Science