A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DATA SCIENTIST

ADAM ROGERSDATA SCIENTIST, JANE.COM3-17-16

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“THE SEXIEST JOB OF THE 21ST CENTURY”

https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century/

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/googles-ai-wins-fifth-final-game-go-genius-lee-sedol/

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/facebooks-deepface-ai-system-scarily-5137505

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SO WHAT DOES A DATA SCIENTIST DO?

MY JOB

THE TOOLS OF THE JOB

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Data-driven products/featur

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Data Research

Infrastructure and tools

DATA INFRASTRUCTURE AND TOOLS

http://united.softserveinc.com/blogs/data-analysis-processing/march-2012/hadoop-mongodb-data-warehouse/

DATA INFRASTRUCTURE AND TOOLS

http://www.slideshare.net/Hadoop_Summit/sparkonyarn-empower-spark-applications-on-hadoop-cluster

DATA RESEARCH – A/B TESTING

RESEARCH – EXECUTIVE KPI’S

DATA-DRIVEN PRODUCTS/FEATURES

• Product/User Recommendations• Automatic color/style detection on products• Product categorization• Deal scheduling optimization• Price optimization• Etc…

CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS – WORD EMBEDDINGS

http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-07-NLP-RNNs-Representations/

PRODUCTS/FEATURES – COLOR DETECTION

SO HOW DO I BECOME A DATA SCIENTIST?

• Competitions are awesome for learning about machine learning!• LIKE THIS ONE!• Kaggle competitions – read the forums!

• Hone your Python skills – scikit-learn, pandas, numpy• Or R…

• Get involved in the Data Science community – online and local (meetups, clubs, conferences, forums, blogs, etc.)• DO DATA SCIENCE-Y PROJECTS, JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT TO• And communicate your process and results – blogs, jupyter notebooks, etc.

QUESTIONS?

THANK YOU!