Data. Science. Hustle.

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Data. Science. Hustle.Michael Conover

Senior Data Scientist, LinkedIn

@vagabondjack

Thursday, August 22, 2013

You’re only as good as your knowledge of the data.

@vagabondjackData. Science. Hustle.

Investigate Hack Assume Nothing

If you can’t regenerate your work,it never really existed.

T+18 Months Bit Rot Fail Happens

All Shapes, Sizes

Unstructured UnpredictablePoorly Documented

Write bullet proof code.

It’s Going to Break You’re on the Hook

Standardize Early, Often

Integers are Powerful Take a GuessDon’t MakeMe Think

Big Column Space

Internet of Everything

CombinatorialExplosion

Impact & Ease

Science

It’s not as hard as you think.

Netflix Challenge Simple Elegance Low Hanging Fruit

Measure Creatively

Instrumentation Similarity Normalization

Think in Memory

Downsample Explore Visualize

Fail Fast Machine Learning

MinimumViable

AlgorithmEffort vs. Progress

Hidden Structure

Understand Your Model

Analyzability Robustness Credibility

It’s harder than you think.

All SingingAll Dancing

Carnival of the Bizarre Last Mile

Hustle

Move, Faster.

Somebody AlreadyHad Your Idea

Hofstadter’s LawCompound

Interest

Come Correct

Lock it Down Know the Angles They Will Ask

Make it Magic

Refine Simplify Persist

Evangelism counts.

Clear Vision Strong Partners Real Talk

Data. Science. Hustle.Michael Conover

Senior Data Scientist, LinkedIn

@vagabondjack

Data. Science. Hustle.

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