Here’s a cool job posting from Apple for a position as a data mining scientist at their Data Mining Lab in Austin, TX.
Check out the Chart.io blog for an interview with one of the founding members of the LinkedIn data science team, Monica Rogati.
When I saw this post on the R-blogger site, it made me smile. It’s originally from the Simply Statistics blog. Only a data scientist would even thing of creating an R function to determine if he or she was a data scientist.
They’ve created a venn diagram showing the intersection of the following skills that define a data scientist:
AOL has a new article on their job board about the Data Scientist, calling the role “the hottest job you haven’t heard of.” While it may be a bit of a buzzword, the idea has been around for a while. Here are a few other references to the term Data Scientist or Data Science…
Hillary Mason, chief scientist at URL shortening service, Bit.ly, will be speaking at the upcoming Strata conference in New York. Here’s a preview from O’Reilly Radar of what she has to say.
A question posed recently on Quora – How do I become a data scientist? has received tons of interesting and helpful feedback including some recommended steps. Also check out coverage on the topic over at O’Reilly Radar.
Flowing Data highlights the increasing role of the data scientist.
