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Leveraging Unusual Data Sources
Brian Lange, Data Scientist at
(our) 6 qualities of a great data scientist
1. Statistical thinking 2. Technical acumen 3. Multi-modal communication skills 4. Curiosity 5. Creativity 6. Grit
(our) 6 qualities of a great data scientist
1. Statistical thinking 2. Technical acumen 3. Multi-modal communication skills 4. Curiosity 5. Creativity 6. Grit
Why think outside the box?
What’s exciting about“Big Data”?
thanks for the graph, Mike Stringer
taking a quantified approach where one was not previously possible is where the greatest gains get made
an example
This is Kathie.
P&G has thousands of researchers & engineers across the globe
Kathie's job is to help them work together.
WE BUILT KATHIE A PEOPLE SEARCH ENGINE
Solution 1: “expert finder”
Japan
UK
USA
JapanUK
USA
Solution 2: strategic dataviz
Japan
UK
USA
JapanUK
USA
vs. expected collaboration rate
0%
15%
-15%
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I would like to thank Peppermint Patty for her support on studying Lorem Ipsum as well as the infinite wisdom of Linus van Pelt and his willingness to use his blanket in my experiments.
Both of these are powered by data derived from employee reports.
determine authorship + publish date
Lorem Ipsum: a narrative about blankets.
Author: Charlie Brown Date: 31 Jan 2012 Lorem Ipsum is a dummy text used when typesetting or marking up documents. It has a long history starting from the 1500s and is still used in digital millennium for typesetting electronic documents, page designs, etc.
In itself, the original text of Lorem Ipsum might have been taken from an ancient Latin book that was written about 50 BC. Nevertheless, Lorem Ipsum’s words have been changed so they don’t read as a proper text.
Naturally, page designs that are made for text documents must contain some text rather than placeholder dots or something else. However, should they contain proper English words and sentences almost every reader will deliberately try to interpret it eventually, missing the design itself.
However, a placeholder text must have a natural distribution of letters and punctuation or otherwise the markup will look strange and unnatural. That’s what Lorem Ipsum helps to achieve.
I would like to thank Peppermint Patty for her support on studying Lorem Ipsum as well as the infinite wisdom of Linus van Pelt and his willingness to use his blanket in my experiments.
determine authorship + publish date
Lorem Ipsum: a narrative about blankets.
Author: Charlie Brown Date: 31 Jan 2012 Lorem Ipsum is a dummy text used when typesetting or marking up documents. It has a long history starting from the 1500s and is still used in digital millennium for typesetting electronic documents, page designs, etc.
In itself, the original text of Lorem Ipsum might have been taken from an ancient Latin book that was written about 50 BC. Nevertheless, Lorem Ipsum’s words have been changed so they don’t read as a proper text.
Naturally, page designs that are made for text documents must contain some text rather than placeholder dots or something else. However, should they contain proper English words and sentences almost every reader will deliberately try to interpret it eventually, missing the design itself.
However, a placeholder text must have a natural distribution of letters and punctuation or otherwise the markup will look strange and unnatural. That’s what Lorem Ipsum helps to achieve.
I would like to thank Peppermint Patty for her support on studying Lorem Ipsum as well as the infinite wisdom of
Linus van Pelt and his willingness to use his blanket in my experiments.
find citations + mentions of other employees
determine authorship + publish date
find citations + mentions of other employees
Lorem Ipsum: a narrative about blankets.
Author: Charlie Brown Date: 31 Jan 2012 Lorem Ipsum is a dummy text used when typesetting or marking up documents. It has a long history starting from the 1500s and is still used in digital millennium for typesetting electronic documents, page designs, etc.
In itself, the original text of Lorem Ipsum might have been taken from an ancient Latin book that was written about 50 BC. Nevertheless, Lorem Ipsum’s words have been changed so they don’t read as a proper text.
Naturally, page designs that are made for text documents must contain some text rather than placeholder dots or something else. However, should they contain proper English words and sentences almost every reader will deliberately try to interpret it eventually, missing the design itself.
However, a placeholder text must have a natural distribution of letters and punctuation or otherwise the markup will look strange and unnatural. That’s what Lorem Ipsum helps to achieve.
I would like to thank Peppermint Patty for her support on studying Lorem Ipsum as well as the infinite wisdom of
Linus van Pelt and his willingness to use his blanket in my experiments.
determine subject matter using Wikipedia
plastics, sustainability, 3d printing
How do you come up with this stuff?
1. define a business problem to solve
If you had 1,000 interns, what
would you have them do?
1. define a business problem to solve2. explore potential solutions
start lo-fi
refine as the needs clarify
1. define a business problem to solve2. explore potential solutions3. go hunting for data to support the solution you’ve narrowed on
1. define a business problem to solve2. explore potential solutions3. go hunting for data to support the solution you’ve narrowed on
1. define a business problem to solve2. explore potential solutions3. go hunting for data to support the solution you’ve narrowed on
inspirational kernels of
wisdom time
the place you work has problems that data has never touched
reportsoffice sensors public APIs
civic/census dataoffice network usage
social media project management tools
sensors in your products server logsCRMs
enthusiast forumsjob applications
email activity surveyscalendar data
superheroes
superheroes
managers: set up your team to be capable of taking advantage of unusual data sources
choose tools that are adaptable, and have "good I/O"
choose people that are creative.
get them up close and personal with the real business problems