Data Scientists at Work

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4302-6598-6
Verlag: Apress

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 527 g

Data Scientists at Work is a collection of interviews with sixteen of the world's most influential and innovative data scientists from across the spectrum of this hot new profession. Data scientist is "the sexiest job in the 21st century" and data scientist job openings increased 15,000 percent in 2012 over 2011, according to the Harvard Business Review. Through incisive in-depth interviews, a data entrepreneur explores the what, how, and why of the practice of data science as revealed in its practitioners’ stories, ideas, and aspirations. Data scientists in the diverse sectors of finance, venture capital, angel investment, retail, e-commerce, fashion, government, education, science, mathematics, politics, news,and sports share with Sebastian Gutierrez how they tailor the torrent-taming techniques of big data, data visualization, search, and statistics to specific jobs by applying intellectual ingenuity, statistical skill, and visual imagination.

The data scientists in this book speak freely of the day-to-day travails and pleasures of extracting actionable meaning and competitive intelligence from rich but recalcitrant big data sets. Gutierrez parts the curtain on his interviewees’ earliest data projects, how they became data scientists, their discoveries and surprises in working with data, their thoughts on the past, present and future of the profession, their experiences of team collaboration within the organizations to which they contribute, and the deep insights they have developed as they get their hands dirty refining mountains of raw data into objects of commercial, scientific, and educational value for their organizations and clients.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gutierrez, Sebastian

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein EDV & Informatik: Ausbildung & Berufe
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Chris Wiggins (The New York Times)

Chapter 2. Caitlin Smallwood (Netflix)

Chapter 3. Yann LeCun (Facebook)

Chapter 4. Erin Shellman (Nordstrom)

Chapter 5. Daniel Tunkelang (LinkedIn)

Chapter 6. John Foreman (MailChimp)

Chapter 7. Roger Ehrenberg (IA Ventures)

Chapter 8. Claudia Perlich (Dstillery)

Chapter 9. Jonathan Lenaghan (PlaceIQ)

Chapter 10. Anna Smith (Rent The Runway)

Chapter 11. Andre Karpistsenko (Planet OS)

Chapter 12. Amy Heineike (Quid)

Chapter 13. Victor Hu (Next Big Sound)

Chapter 14. Kira Radinsky (SalesPredict)

Chapter 15. Eric Jonas (Independent Scientist)

Chapter 16. Jake Porway (DataKind)

Über Autor(innen)

Sebastian Gutierrez is a data entrepreneur who has founded three data-related companies: DataYou (data science and data visualization consulting and education), LetsWombat (data-driven product sampling), and Acheevmo (athletic performance statistics). He was formerly an emerging markets risk manager at Scotia Capital and an FX options trader at JP Morgan and Standard Chartered Bank.Gutierrez provides training in data visualization and D3.js to a diverse client base, including corporations such as the New York Stock Exchange, the American Express Company, and General Dynamics, universities, media agencies, and startups. He leads the 1,600-member New York City D3.js Meetup Group and is co-editor of Data Science Weekly, a weekly newsletter providing curated articles and videos on the latest developments in data science. He is a frequent speaker at meetups and conferences, such as Strata and Hadoop World in New York and Barcelona. He is a cross-disciplinary instructor at General Assembly. Gutierrez holds a BS in Mathematics from MIT and an MA in Economics from the University of San Francisco.