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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.

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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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Gender Inequality Persists in Data Science and AI

Business Over Broadway

Ways of improving gender diversity in the field of data science are offered. US Labor Force Statistics for Selected Occupations. How does gender diversity look in the data science world? Annual Salaries of Data Professionals from the US. No gender difference in formal education among data professionals.

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Machine Learning Interview Questions to Land the Perfect Data Science Job

Smart Data Collective

Are you looking to get a job in big data? The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that there were over 31,000 people working in this field back in 2018. However, it is not easy to get a career in big data. Prepare for Machine Learning Interview Questions for Your Data Science Job.

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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.

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A Retrospective of 2018’s Articles

Peter James Thomas

Despite starting to write this piece on 18 th December 2018, I have somehow sneaked into the second quarter before getting round to completing it. Anyway, 2018 was a record-breaking year for peterjamesthomas.com. Given the advent of the Maths & Science section, there are now seven categories into which I have split articles.

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Reflections on the Data Science Platform Market

Domino Data Lab

In 2018 we saw the “data science platform” market rapidly crystallize into three distinct product segments. Over the last couple years, it would be hard to blame anyone for being overwhelmed looking at the data science platform market landscape. Proprietary (often GUI-driven) data science platforms.