Sat.Mar 04, 2017 - Fri.Mar 10, 2017

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Office Politics: A survivor’s guide for programmers and data scientists

DSI Analytics

Office Politics: A survivor’s guide for data scientists Everyone gets sunk by office politics at some point in their career, but data scientists are in some ways especially ill-prepared to navigate the unspoken rules and hidden agendas that together form a critical part of the corporate world. There are those who leverage office politics as […].

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Social Analytics are the LEAST of Analytics Leaders’ Problems

Jenny Sussin

This is my second year attending Gartner’s Data and Analytics Summit and I love it. I love it because the conversations I have with analytics leaders about social analytics shed brilliant light on why social analytics has been, and often continues to be, the responsibility of a separate social marketing team. For marketers, social analytics can be game changing.

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Top advice for a Data Scientist

MLWhiz

A data scientist needs to be Critical and always on a lookout of something that misses others. So here are some advices that one can include in day to day data science work to be better at their work: 1. Beware of the Clean Data Syndrome You need to ask yourself questions even before you start working on the data. Does this data make sense? Falsely assuming that the data is clean could lead you towards wrong Hypotheses.