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Defining data science in 2018

Data Science and Beyond

I got my first data science job in 2012, the year Harvard Business Review announced data scientist to be the sexiest job of the 21st century. Two years later, I published a post on my then-favourite definition of data science , as the intersection between software engineering and statistics. But what does it mean?

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Top BOB Blog Posts of 2018: Data Science, Machine Learning and the Net Promoter Score

Business Over Broadway

The importance of data science and machine learning continues to grow in business and beyond. I did my part this year to spread interest in data science to more people. Below are my top 10 blog posts of 2018: Favorite Data Science Blogs, Podcasts and Newsletters. Click image to enlarge.

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Chart Snapshot: Bump Charts

The Data Visualisation Catalogue

Taiwan Data Stories, By Daisy Chung, Ivy Chen, & Eva Huang. Interactive development & interaction design by Julia Janicki. Donna + DataViz PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games. Bump Chart — Data Science 42 / Dominik Koch Social Media Usage by Age. Tools to create this chart with: D3.js

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GoLang for Data Science

Data Science 101

While it is not one of the popular programming languages for data science, The Go Programming Language (aka Golang) has surfaced for me a few times in the past few years as an option for data science. I decided to do some searching and find some conclusions about whether golang is a good choice for data science.

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Highlights from the Strata Data Conference in New York 2018

O'Reilly on Data

Watch highlights from expert talks covering data science, machine learning, algorithmic accountability, and more. People from across the data world are coming together in New York for the Strata Data Conference. The future of data warehousing. Von Neumann to deep learning: Data revolutionizing the future.

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Top Data Science Tools That Will Empower Your Data Exploration Processes

datapine

Data science has become an extremely rewarding career choice for people interested in extracting, manipulating, and generating insights out of large volumes of data. To fully leverage the power of data science, scientists often need to obtain skills in databases, statistical programming tools, and data visualizations.

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly on Data

Growth is still strong for such a large topic, but usage slowed in 2018 (+13%) and cooled significantly in 2019, growing by just 7%. Within the data topic, however, ML+AI has gone from 22% of all usage to 26%. In 2019, as in 2018, Python was the most popular language on O’Reilly online learning. Security is surging.