Tag: Data Scientist (777)

• KDnuggets Annual Poll: Analytics/Data Science/Data Mining income/salary, role, and employment - Feb 11, 2015.
  
  Please vote in KDnuggets annual poll on analytics / data science / data mining field income/salary vs analytic role and employment. We will analyze and publish the results.

  Tags: Data Analyst, Data Scientist, Poll, Salary

• Upcoming Webcasts on Analytics, Big Data, Data Science – Feb 10 and beyond - Feb 9, 2015.
  
  Data Mining: Failure to Launch, 3 Ways to Improve your Regression, The Pragmatic Text Miner, Make It Big As a Data Scientist in 2015, Managing Big Data in Production and more.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Failure to Launch, Regression, Text Mining

• Women in Data: Top Practitioners on Critical Skills, Background, and Education - Feb 7, 2015.
  
  Cornelia Levy-Bencheton interviewed 15 women in data to learn how they achieved their current level of success, what motivated them to get there, and their views about opportunities for women.

  Tags: Data Scientist, O'Reilly, STEM, Women

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jan 28-29: Top open source web crawlers for data mining; Listen to Edward Tufte, guru of Data Visualization - Jan 30, 2015.
  
  Useful list: Top 50 open source web #crawlers for data mining; Listen to Edward Tufte, guru of Data #Visualization, on how to see data; Not too sexy: Data Scientist is only n. 9 in Glassdoor 10 best jobs; When not analyzing #BigData, I am enjoying the Big Snow.

  Tags: About Gregory Piatetsky, Crawler, Data Scientist, Data Visualization, Edward Tufte, Salary, Skiing

• Booking: Senior Data Scientist - Jan 30, 2015.
  
  Work with stakeholders throughout the company to generate understanding, strategy and suggest actions based on data. Be hands on, but also coach junior co-workers and do some management.

  Tags: Amsterdam, Booking.com, Data Scientist, Netherlands

• Collective[i]: Data Scientist - Jan 28, 2015.
  
  Work on our first-of-its-kind sales analytics platform, which combines a proprietary, always-learning network with data-driven, predictive applications.

  Tags: CA, Collective[i], Data Scientist, New York City, NY, San Francisco, USA

• Flipkart: Data Science interns, Data Scientists - Jan 26, 2015.
  
  Flipkart is most well-funded Indian Internet company, looking at many challenging problems with huge business impact, including personalisation, recommendation, pricing, and more.

  Tags: Bangalore, Data Scientist, Flipkart, India, Intern

• Interview: John Schitka, SAP on The Type of Data Scientists We Need - Jan 24, 2015.
  
  We discuss the focus areas of Big Data strategy at SAP, how SAP is leading the competition, the kind of data scientists we need, advice and more.

  Tags: Big Data Strategy, Career, Competition, Data Scientist, Interview, John Schitka, SAP, SAP HANA

• How to interview a data scientist - Jan 16, 2015.
  
  Having spent the last year interviewing a large number of Data Scientists, I’ve developed a simple set of questions that help me to understand the what, the why and the how of what they do.

  Tags: Chris Pearson, Data Scientist, Hiring

• Exclusive: Interview with Chris Wiggins, NYTimes Chief Data Scientist - Jan 13, 2015.
  
  New York Times Chief Data Scientist Chris Wiggins on the transformation of digital journalism, key Data Science skills, favorite tools, why better wrong than nice, and how Thomas Jefferson is very relevant today.

  Tags: API, Chris Wiggins, Data journalism, Data Scientist, NYTimes, Privacy

• Top KDnuggets Analytics, Big Data, Data Science stories in 2014, updated - Jan 11, 2015.
  
  Top KDnuggets stories in 2014 had several themes - Deep Learning; Data Scientist career, education, and salary; IBM Watson; Resources for learning Data Science, especially R and Python, and polls on what are most popular analytics/data mining software & languages.

  Tags: Analytics Languages, Cartoon, Data Scientist, Deep Learning, IBM Watson, Python, R, Top stories, Yann LeCun

• Top KDnuggets Analytics, Big Data, Data Science stories in 2014 - Dec 16, 2014.
  
  Top KDnuggets stories in 2014 had several themes - Deep Learning; Data Scientist career, education, and salary; Resources for learning Data Science, especially R and Python, and polls on popular languages for data science and data mining.

  Tags: Analytics Languages, Cartoon, Data Scientist, Deep Learning, IBM Watson, Python, R, Top stories, Yann LeCun

• Microsoft: Data Scientists in Redmond, Boston and Mountain View - Dec 16, 2014.
  
  At Azure Machine Learning, our vision is to make machine learning cloud technology accessible to every enterprise, data scientist, developer, information worker, consumer, and device anywhere in the world.

  Tags: Azure ML, Boston-MA, Data Scientist, Microsoft, Mountain View-CA, Redmond-WA

• Most Demanded Data Science and Data Mining Skills - Dec 15, 2014.
  
  Our analysis of most demanded data scientist skills shows that Data Science is a team effort focused on business analytics, with top 5 platform skills being SQL, Python, R, SAS, and Hadoop.

  Tags: Data Science Skills, Data Scientist, Hadoop, New York-NY, Python, R, SAS, Skills, SQL

• Our Iceberg is Melting.. Now where is that Data Scientist? - Dec 15, 2014.
  
  Marketing analytics teams could improve their effectiveness by employing a marketing effectiveness strategy similar to that used by penguins dealing with their iceberg melting.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Debleena Roy, Market Analytics, Marketing

• 2015 Predictions – What’s Next for Data Scientists? - Dec 12, 2014.
  
  What’s next for data scientists in 2015 - new areas they will focus on - cyber threats to fraud detection - and how the expectations for this profession will change.

  Tags: Data Science Skills, Data Scientist, EXASOL, Predictions for 2015

• Knewton: Data Scientist - Dec 10, 2014.
  
  Knewton is on a mission to personalize education for students around the world - many education organization already use the Knewton platform to power course materials that dynamically adapt to each student unique needs.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Knewton, New York-NY, Online Education

• Clear Capital: Data Scientist - Dec 8, 2014.
  
  Your role as the data scientist is a hybrid role that can solve client problems that are ambiguous, seemingly impossible yet in your reach.

  Tags: Clear Capital, Data Scientist, Lake Tahoe-CA, Mortgage

• Apple: Senior Data Scientist, Retail – Online - Dec 7, 2014.
  
  Design, develop, and field analyses that have direct and measurable impact to the management of the Apple Online and Retail Stores.

  Tags: Apple, Cupertino-CA, Data Scientist, Retail

• Data Scientist: Owning Up to the Title - Dec 5, 2014.
  
  Regardless of how Data Science or Data Scientist is defined, if you are going to use the word "scientist" in your title, you are going to be held accountable for it.

  Tags: Career, Data Science Skills, Data Scientist, Salary, Sean McClure

• Dstillery: Data Scientist - Dec 4, 2014.
  
  Dstillery is a tech pioneer that uses sophisticated analytics and data-based insights to help advertisers realize the potential of digital media.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Dstillery, New York-NY

• 9 Must-Have Skills You Need to Become a Data Scientist - Nov 22, 2014.
  
  Burtch Works details the top 9 data science skills that potential data scientists must have to be competitive in this growing marketplace from the perspective of a recruiter.

  Tags: Burtch Works, Data Science Skills, Data Scientist, Hiring, MOOC, Unicorn

• LRRI: Senior Data Scientist - Nov 21, 2014.
  
  Looking for a driven and visionary team leader in our data science division, Datalytic Solutions.

  Tags: Albuquerque-NM, Data Scientist, LRRI

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Nov 17-18: Keep this #Python Cheat Sheet handy; Is #BigData The Most Hyped Technology Ever? - Nov 19, 2014.
  
  Keep this #Python Cheat Sheet handy when learning to code; Is #BigData The Most Hyped Technology Ever? No (at least not yet); How to become a data scientist in 8 (not so) easy steps;R and Hadoop make Machine Learning Possible for Everyone.

  Tags: Big Data Hype, Cheat Sheet, Data Scientist, Data Visualization, Python

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Nov 09-16: 8 Steps to Becoming a #DataScientist; Learn How Google Understands You - Nov 17, 2014.
  
  8 Steps to Becoming a Data Scientist; Learn How Google Understands You; Workday #BigData Analysis can predict which employees likely to leave; A Very Good #DeepLearning Tutorial;

  Tags: Data Scientist, Deep Learning, Employee Churn, Google, R

• L’Oreal Americas: Senior Data Scientist, Connected Beauty Incubator - Nov 11, 2014.
  
  Help L'Oreal expand into connected beauty, use "big data" science tools to increase product performance and improve the lives of our consumers.

  Tags: Beauty, Clark-NJ, Data Scientist, L'Oreal

• IBM Watson Analytics – Will it Replace Data Scientists ? - Nov 11, 2014.
  
  We review IBM Watson Analytics Beta version, the service which aims to provide an automated data scientist and intended for business users who want to move beyond spreadsheets for analysis .

  Tags: Data Scientist, IBM, Visualization, Watson

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Nov 3-4: A population density map of France derived from 1B cellphone call records - Nov 5, 2014.
  
  A population density map of France derived from 1B cellphone call records; IBM Insight 2014; A reminder from Lockheed Martin that #BigData can be a slow process; The key language a Data Scientist should master is not R or Python, but Business.

  Tags: Carla Gentry, Data Scientist, France, IBM, Kirk D. Borne, Mobile Phone Usage

• Apple: Data Scientist - Nov 5, 2014.
  
  The Maps Supply Chain Management team is looking for a skilled, experienced, and motivated Data Scientist to help us discover patterns and quality issues with our local data sets.

  Tags: Apple, Cupertino-CA, Data Scientist, Maps

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Oct 29-30: If you can’t code, you can’t be a data scientist; 13 Machine Learning Books - Oct 31, 2014.
  
  The #strataconf debate: If You Can't Code, You Can't Be a Data Scientist; 13 Machine Learning Books recommended by Berkeley machine learning expert; Data Blending for Dummies - free ebook from Alteryx; Data Science 2.0, upcoming book from Vincent Granville.

  Tags: Alteryx, Data Scientist, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Michael Jordan, Vincent Granville

• DBS Bank (Singapore): VP, Data Scientist - Oct 30, 2014.
  
  Assess business needs and define analytical strategy, data & technology requirements. Develop models and perform statistical analysis to predict customer behavior across full range of consumer banking products.

  Tags: Data Scientist, DBS, Singapore, VP

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Oct 27-28: Twitter Breakout detection in the wild; Marc Andreessen on #BigData and finance - Oct 29, 2014.
  
  Dilbert on inability of designers predict results of A/B tests; Marc Andreessen @pmarc, web pioneer, VC @a16z on #BigData, upending finance; Will Deep Learning take over Machine Learning, make other algorithms obsolete?;.@WillJHenry @data_nerd @KirkDBorne Data Scientists don't wear bowties!

  Tags: Anomaly Detection, Cartoon, Data Scientist, Deep Learning, Dilbert, Marc Andreessen, Twitter

• Higher Up Recruiting: Data Scientists, Data Miners, NLP Experts - Oct 28, 2014.
  
  Higher Up Recruiting is working with a San Diego based company recruiting for both Contract and Direct Hire positions for a Biotech related company in San Diego.

  Tags: Biotech, Contract positions, Data Scientist, NLP, San Diego-CA

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Oct 20-21: 4 ways to become a Data Scientist w/out a PhD; Ebola and Data Science Lessons - Oct 22, 2014.
  
  4 ways to become a Data Scientist w/out getting a PhD; Ebola Analytics and Data Science Lessons; Apple: Data Analyst; How to Be a Data Scientist: An Interview with Dr. Pete Meyers of Moz.

  Tags: Apple, Data Scientist, Ebola, Internet of Things, startups

• Pacific Life: Sr. Data Scientist - Oct 15, 2014.
  
  Analyze big data to gain a better understanding of our customers - how they interact with our company and our products and what they desire moving forward.

  Tags: Aliso Viejo-CA, Data Scientist, Insurance, Pacific Life

• Alibaba: Senior Data Scientist - Oct 9, 2014.
  
  Develop rich insight into consumer behaviors, preferences and experiences from the vast resources in order to improve the customer experience across a broad range of areas.

  Tags: Alibaba, Data Scientist, Hangzhou-China

• Civis Analytics: Data Scientist – Unstructured Data - Oct 7, 2014.
  
  Apply techniques from text analytics, machine learning, applied statistics, natural language processing, computer vision, and speech processing to the growing unstructured datasets collected at Civis.

  Tags: Chicago-IL, Civis Analytics, Data Scientist, Unstructured data

• Civis Analytics: Data Scientist – Statistics (Senior and Junior roles) - Oct 7, 2014.
  
  Civis was founded by a team from Obama 2012 and is helping companies, non-profits, and campaigns leverage their data. Apply state-of-the-art statistical methods and develop entirely new methods to use our data in new ways.

  Tags: Chicago-IL, Civis Analytics, Data Scientist, Statistics

• Civis Analytics: Data Scientist – Engineering (Senior and Junior roles) - Oct 7, 2014.
  
  Founded by a team from Obama 2012, we are helping companies, non-profits, and campaigns leverage their data. Integrate, scale, and optimize our team data science methods, techniques, and best practices to run on very large datasets at high speeds.

  Tags: Chicago-IL, Civis Analytics, Data Engineering, Data Scientist

• Cray: Senior Data Scientist - Oct 7, 2014.
  
  Part of an elite data science team supporting global Fortune 100 organizations in detection, forecasting, predictive modeling and analytics to provide business insights, improve targeting, maximize return on investment, and optimize marketing efforts.

  Tags: Cray, Data Scientist, New York-NY, YarcData

• Bell Labs: Research Data Scientist - Oct 6, 2014.
  
  Solve challenging problems and build analytic products with real-world impact; design and implement efficient and accurate algorithms for large scale data.

  Tags: Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, Data Scientist, Murray Hill, NJ

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Oct 1-2: R wizard Hadley Wickham “Advanced R” book online - Oct 3, 2014.
  
  R wizard Hadley Wickham "Advanced R" book online; IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook; Mirador, a tool for visual exploration of complex datasets; The End of the (Human) Data Scientist Bubble?

  Tags: Bubble, Data Scientist, Data Visualization, Hadley Wickham, IPython, Mirador, R

• Booking: Data Scientist - Oct 3, 2014.
  
  Booking.com is one of the top 5 e-commerce companies in the world. Help steer the product improvements, give strategy perspective, and provide business understanding.

  Tags: Amsterdam-Netherlands, Booking.com, Data Scientist, Travel

• Thomson Reuters: Data Scientist - Oct 2, 2014.
  
  A passionate Data Scientist with a proven record of building data-driven insights to address complex business problems. Join our Data Innovation Lab and have a significant impact on our products.

  Tags: Boston-MA, Data Scientist, Thomson Reuters

• Zynga: Senior Data Scientist - Sep 26, 2014.
  
  Working closely with game teams to identify and formalize problems around user modeling, designing and implementing models and algorithms for new problems in Social Gaming.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Online Games, San Francisco-CA, Social Gaming, Zynga

• Microsoft: Data Scientists in Redmond, Boston and Mountain View - Sep 25, 2014.
  
  Join the excitement of Machine Learning in the Cloud at Microsoft fast-paced data science team in the Azure ML group, building machine learning powered intelligent web services and end to end solutions.

  Tags: Boston-MA, Cloud, Data Scientist, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Mountain View-CA, Redmond-WA

• Top Hedge Fund: Data Scientist, Machine Intelligence Team - Sep 25, 2014.
  
  Join the Machine Intelligence team at one of the world's top hedge funds, led by the former head of the IBM Watson Project. You will tackle a range of problems impacting the firm's investment, business, and talent management strategies.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Edelman, Hedge fund, Stamford-CT

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Sep 17-18: 20 questions to ask a Data Scientist; Business Analytics ROI is 1301% - Sep 19, 2014.
  
  20 questions you should ask a Data Scientist for a good conversation; Mad (Data) Scientist asks: "Why Are We Still Teaching t-tests?"; Great slides from @RDataMining: Intro, Data Exploration, Regression, Classification; Rattle package for Data Mining and Data Science in R.

  Tags: Business Analytics, Data Scientist, R, Rattle, ROI, Statistics

• Health Integrated: Healthcare Data Scientist - Sep 18, 2014.
  
  Creating state of the art analytics solutions that can be shared across product lines and managed care businesses.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Health Integrated, Healthcare, Tampa-FL

• KDnuggets 14:n24, Hiring Data Scientists; Most Viewed Machine Learning, Data Mining Talks - Sep 18, 2014.
  
  KDnuggets Analytics, Big Data, Data mining, and Data Science stories, including Features, Software, News, Opinions, Interviews, Reports, Webcasts, Courses, Meetings, Jobs, Academic, Publications, Tweets, and CFP.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Hadoop, Machine Learning, MOOC, Process Mining, Uplift Modeling, Videolectures

• Nike: Senior Data Scientist, Applied Analytics - Sep 16, 2014.
  
  Be one of the analytics professionals generating business-driving multichannel insight and CRM targeting strategies for Nike Direct to Consumer business.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Nike, Portland-OR

• Skyhigh Networks: Data Scientist – Big Data - Sep 16, 2014.
  
  Help us develop data models for user behavior, security threat detection and other advanced persistent threats, as part of groundbreaking technology for enabling the safe adoption of cloud services.

  Tags: Cupertino-CA, Data Scientist, Security, Skyhigh Networks, Threat detection

• DuPont Pioneer: Data Scientist - Sep 15, 2014.
  
  Seek a strong data scientist with background in machine learning and data mining, a critical position with the potential for significant, long-term impact on our business.

  Tags: Data Scientist, DuPont, Johnston-IA

• Top stories for Sep 7-13: Hiring Data Scientists; MOOC – Process Mining - Sep 14, 2014.
  
  Hiring Data Scientists: What to look for?; MOOC: Process Mining: Data science in Action; Most Viewed Machine Learning Talks at Videolectures.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Machine Learning, MOOC, Process Mining, Top stories, Videolectures

• Schlumberger: Lead Data Scientist - Sep 11, 2014.
  
  Work with the data and business intelligence resources to build and deliver analytics capabilities to the business segments and support the business and IT transformation.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Houston-TX, Schlumberger

• Schlumberger: Senior Data Scientist - Sep 11, 2014.
  
  Working with the data and business intelligence resources to build and deliver analytics capabilities to the business segments and support the business and IT transformation.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Houston-TX, Schlumberger

• Alibaba: Senior Data Scientist - Sep 10, 2014.
  
  Develop rich insight into consumer behaviors, preferences and experiences from the vast resources in order to improve the customer experience across a broad range of areas.

  Tags: Alibaba, Data Scientist, Hangzhou-China

• Hiring Data Scientists: What to look for? - Sep 9, 2014.
  
  Know key characteristics of what makes up a good data scientist based upon the three authors’ consulting and research experience, having collaborated with many companies world-wide on the topics of big data and analytics.

  Tags: Analytics, Big Data, Business, Data Mining, Data Scientist, Hiring, Programming, Skills, Statistics

• WhitePages: Senior Statistician / Data Scientist - Sep 8, 2014.
  
  You have a unique combination of analytic, engineering, and communication skills that allows you to address all aspects of making data valuable, and WhitePages has a unique challenge for you.

  Tags: Data Scientist, New York-NY, Seattle-WA, Statistician, WhitePages

• Bosch Research and Technology Center: Multiple Data Scientist, Data Mining Engineer positions - Sep 3, 2014.
  
  Join the Data Science team at Bosch RTC to research and develop novel, large scale machine learning and data mining algorithms, for Predictive Maintenance, Health Informatics, Vehicle Diagnostics, Manufacturing, and other applications.

  Tags: Bosch, Data Analyst, Data Mining Engineer, Data Scientist, Palo Alto-CA, Research Engineer

• Symantec: IoT Analytics Engineer – Principal (Data Scientist) - Aug 29, 2014.
  
  A key, hands-on contributor to the development and integration of analytics and machine learning technologies under the Internet of Things (IoT) umbrella.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Engineer, Internet of Things, IoT, Mountain View-CA, Symantec

• Resonate: Data Scientist - Aug 29, 2014.
  
  Performing complex data analysis on large datasets to further develop our campaign optimization and targeting algorithms.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Optimization, Resonate, Reston-VA, Targeting

• Microsoft: Principal Data Scientist, Skype - Aug 29, 2014.
  
  Responsible for analyzing call quality for Skype and Lync and driving improvements into the product, to make Skype and Lync have the best audio and video communication experience possible.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Microsoft, Redmond-WA, Skype

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Aug 22-24: A Day in the Life of a Functional Data Scientist; Keeping up to date - Aug 25, 2014.
  
  A Day in the Life of a Functional Data Scientist; How to keep yourself up to data on Data Science, Data Mining; Automatic Storytelling: How to Build Your Very Own Data Scientist ; Four main languages for Analytics, Data Mining, Data.

  Tags: Analytics Languages, Data Scientist, KDD-2014

• Flipkart: Data Scientist - Aug 22, 2014.
  
  If you are passionate about Data, looking to impact billion+ people, and have an advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Optimization, NLP or related areas, we would love to talk!

  Tags: Bangalore-India, Data Scientist, Flipkart

• Nike: Senior Data Scientist, Integrated Analytics, Global Consumer Knowledge - Aug 21, 2014.
  
  Work across Nike consumer facing businesses to define and implement measurement strategies, instrument and analyze consumer behavior, and inform Nike global strategy.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Nike, Portland-OR

• Panel Report: A Data Scientist Guide to Startups - Aug 19, 2014.
  
  A detailed report on the KDD-2013 panel with 4 leading data scientists and entrepreneurs - Ron Bekkerman, Oren Etzioni, Usama Fayyad, and Claudia Perlich, discussing the major issues in Big Data and Data Science startups.

  Tags: Big Data Journal, Chicago-IL, Claudia Perlich, Data Scientist, KDD, Oren Etzioni, startups, Usama Fayyad

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Aug 15-17: Top Research Leaders in Data Mining; Hbase; Job Interview - Aug 18, 2014.
  
  The top 5 Questions a Data Scientist should ask during a job interview; Top Research Leaders in Data Mining, Data Science, and KDD; Least popular jobs for big data practitioners; Graduate Programs in #BigData Analytics and Data Science.

  Tags: Data Mining, Data Science Education, Data Scientist, HBase, Researchers

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Aug 13-14: Boyfriend as a statistically “significant” other - Aug 15, 2014.
  
  xkcd: Boyfriend as a statistically "significant" other; Interesting Social Media Datasets; Sibyl: a System for Large Scale Machine Learning at Google; We don't need such hype: "Big Data scientists get 100 recruiter emails a day".

  Tags: Cartoon, Data Scientist, Datasets, Google, Machine Learning, Sibyl, Social Media, xkcd

• Top stories for Aug 3-9: Cartoon: Big Data Viz and 7-D Printer; Exclusive: Dell on Data Mining, Statistica future - Aug 10, 2014.
  
  Cartoon: Big Data Visualization and 7-D Printer; Exclusive: Dell Management on Analytics, Data Mining, Statistica future; Becoming a Data Scientist: MS Program, Bootcamp, or MOOCs?; Big Data Innovation Summit 2014 Toronto highlights.

  Tags: Bootcamp, Cartoon, Data Scientist, Dell, MOOC, Statistica, StatSoft, Top stories

• Six Thinking Hats and the Life of a Data Scientist - Aug 8, 2014.
  
  Learn about the different "hats" (mindsets) a data scientist should adopt to reach maximum effectiveness in the variety of situations encountered in this emerging field.

  Tags: Data Science Skills, Data Scientist, Debleena Roy, Edward De Bono, Hats

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Aug 6-7: Becoming a Data Scientist: MS Program, Bootcamp, or MOOCs? - Aug 8, 2014.
  
  Becoming a Data Scientist: MS Program, Bootcamp, or MOOCs?; Statistics is the *least* important part of data science; New Poll: What languages you used for analytics / data mining in 2014; If you love Pizza and #DataScience, here is a unique job for you.

  Tags: Bootcamp, Data Scientist, MOOC, Pizza, Poll, SQL, Statistics

• Machine Zone: Data Scientist for World’s Largest Mobile MMO - Aug 8, 2014.
  
  Develop and investigate hypotheses, structure experiments and build mathematical models to identify game optimization points that will encourage users to play our games.

  Tags: Data Scientist, MachineZone, Online Games, Palo Alto-CA

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Aug 4-5: Ensemble Methods, a brief history; Data Scientist role shifting - Aug 6, 2014.
  
  Ensemble Methods are the backbone of #MachineLearning - a brief history; Data Scientist role shifting, with companies focusing on Developers; To add #MachineLearning for Python, scikit-learn; for Hadoop: Mahout; Meet Fortune 2014 #BigData All-Stars: data scientists, entrepreneurs, CEOs.

  Tags: Apache Mahout, Data Scientist, Ensemble Methods, Machine Learning, scikit-learn

• Dominos: Data Scientist - Aug 6, 2014.
  
  Data Scientists at Domino's Pizza don't just crunch numbers...they view the universe as one large data set, and they decipher relationships and high level insights from that mass of information.

  Tags: Ann Arbor-MI, Data Scientist, Pizza

• Bottomline: Sr. Data Scientist - Aug 6, 2014.
  
  Work on exciting Machine Learning and data mining projects in the Financial Industry! Join a newly established predictive and advanced analytics team to build innovative analytics solutions to solve problems in financial industry.

  Tags: Bottomline, Data Scientist, Herndon-VA, Portsmouth-NH

• Top stories in July: Cartoon: Facebook data science experiment and Cats; Data Mining/Data Science “Nobel Prize” - Aug 5, 2014.
  
  Cartoon: Facebook data science experiment and Happy Cats; Data Mining/Data Science "Nobel Prize": ACM SIGKDD 2014 Innovation Award to Pedro Domingos; Is "Data Scientist" more than "Data Analyst"?; When Watson Meets Machine Learning.

  Tags: Cartoon, Data Scientist, Facebook, Machine Learning, MLlib, Pedro Domingos, SIGKDD, Top stories, Watson

• Teleport: Data Scientist - Aug 1, 2014.
  
  Find, scrape, fuse, structure, visualize and build our growing pool of data that we use to power our search engine for digital nomads. Join a well-funded startup as one of the first employees.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Palo Alto-CA, Tallinn-Estonia, Teleport

• Kreditech: Junior Data Scientist/Business Analyst - Jul 31, 2014.
  
  Help build and shape credit scoring 2.0, perform advanced business analysis and forecasting on a wide range of problems.

  Tags: Business Analyst, Data Scientist, Hamburg-Germany, Kreditech

• Booking (Amsterdam): Data Scientist - Jul 31, 2014.
  
  Help steer the improvements of our products, give strategy perspective to our teams, and provide business understanding to the organization based on your data analysis.

  Tags: Amsterdam-Netherlands, Booking.com, Data Scientist

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jul 28-29: Data Scientists are among the highest-paid professions - Jul 30, 2014.
  
  Data Scientists are among the highest-paid professions; Top countries with $1B Internet firms; Key paper on #DeepLearning: Dropout; KDnuggets Free Pass to Strata Conference + Hadoop World, New York.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Deep Learning, Internet firms, Salary, Strata

• Kreditech: Data Scientist, Business Analyst - Jul 30, 2014.
  
  Responsible for performing advanced business analysis and forecasting on a wide range of problems, from debt collection performance to customer experience optimization.

  Tags: Business Analyst, Data Scientist, Hamburg-Germany, Kreditech

• Kreditech: Data Scientist, Web Analytics - Jul 30, 2014.
  
  Perform advanced business analytics over web traffic to optimize customer experience on our online platform, and analyze complex interactions to maximize marketing ROI campaigns across different platforms/channels.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Hamburg-Germany, Kreditech, Web Analytics

• Autodesk: Marketing Data Scientist - Jul 23, 2014.
  
  Designing, developing, and fielding data mining solutions that have direct and measurable impact on Autodesk Marketing effectiveness.

  Tags: Autodesk, Data Scientist, Marketing, San Francisco-CA

• Swisscom: Data Scientist - Jul 22, 2014.
  
  Make sure that Swisscom is always a step ahead - use state-of-the-art techniques to provide game-changing insights from huge data sets.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Swisscom, Switzerland

• Microsoft: Data Scientist - Jul 21, 2014.
  
  Do exciting Machine Learning in the Cloud! Join a fast paced data science team in the Microsoft Cloud + Enterprise organization building machine learning powered intelligent web services.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Microsoft, Redmond-WA

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jul 16-17: An awesome list of Big Data frameworks - Jul 18, 2014.
  
  An awesome GitHub list of #BigData frameworks, resources, and more; 15 interviews with 15 data scientists; 14 definitions of data scientist, from funny to serious; Revised standards for statistical evidence.

  Tags: Big Data, Data Scientist, GitHub, Interview, Statistics

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jul 14-15: 5 R training programs; Making sense of text analytics - Jul 16, 2014.
  
  Top 10 KDnuggets tweets, July 14-15: 5 R training programs; Making sense of text analytics; Watch: Machine Learning Summer School Pittsburgh 2014; US "Data Scientist" average salary up over 10%, to $112K.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Machine Learning, R, Salary, Text Analytics

• Disney | ABC TV Group: Principal Data Scientist - Jul 15, 2014.
  
  Design and manage the execution of data analysis and modeling projects aimed at solving high-impact business problems for Disney/ABC TV group media networks.

  Tags: ABC Television, Burbank-CA, Data Scientist, Disney

• Top stories for Jun 29 – Jul 5 - Jul 6, 2014.
  
  Do you need a Masters Degree to become a Data Scientist?; Is "Data Scientist" more than "Data Analyst" ?; When Watson Meets Machine Learning; 100 Big Data Companies Analyzed.

  Tags: Big Data Vendors, Data Analyst, Data Scientist, IBM Watson, Machine Learning, Top stories

• A Malta technology startup: Data Scientist - Jul 3, 2014.
  
  Looking for a Data Scientist who is an analytical, statistics loving, number cruncher who is driven and likes to work with technology, statistics, mathematics and business.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Malta, Online casino

• Booking: Data Scientist - Jul 2, 2014.
  
  Help steer the improvements of our products, give strategy perspective to our teams, and provide business understanding to the organization based on your data analysis.

  Tags: Amsterdam-Netherlands, Booking.com, Data Scientist

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jun 30 – Jul 1: Is “Data Scientist” more than “Data Analyst”? Good list of 41 Big Data Influencers - Jul 2, 2014.
  
  Is "Data Scientist" more than "Data Analyst"? ; 41 Big Data Influencers - Journalists, Public Sector, Industry, Academia; Alteryx and Databricks to lead development of Apache SparkR ; Top data mining researcher @Jure Leskovec lecture on Webgraph structure.

  Tags: Alteryx, Apache Spark, Big Data Influencers, Data Analyst, Data Scientist, Databricks

• KDnuggets 14:n17, Need MS to be a Data Scientist? 100 Big Data Companies Analyzed - Jul 2, 2014.
  
  KDnuggets Analytics, Data mining, and Data Science stories, including Features, Software, Opinions, News, Webcasts, Courses, Meetings and Reports, Jobs, Publications, Tweets, and CFP.

  Tags: Big Data Vendors, Data Scientist, Domino, Ingo Mierswa, Master of Science, RapidMiner, XLMiner

• Is “Data Scientist” more than “Data Analyst” ? - Jul 1, 2014.
  
  Data Scientists and Data Analysts have a number of skills unique to their positions, with analysts focusing more on creating business value and data scientists including simulation and optimization in their jobs.

  Tags: Business Intelligence, Data Analyst, Data Mining, Data Scientist

• BehaviorMatrix: Predictive Modeler / Data Scientist - Jun 30, 2014.
  
  BehaviorMatrix is a digital media analytics company that applies proprietary behavioral analysis to Big Data in order to provide unique insights to advertisers, product managers, investors, political campaigns, and others.

  Tags: BehaviorMatrix, Data Scientist, Philadelphia-PA, Predictive Modeler

• BehaviorMatrix: Data Scientist - Jun 30, 2014.
  
  A strong candidate would be highly interdisciplinary, with experience in data mining, machine learning, statistics, business analytics, and computational linguistics, as well as extensive programming experience, but flexibility and ability to learn is more important than any particular skill.

  Tags: BehaviorMatrix, Data Scientist, Philadelphia-PA

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jun 27-29: Google says Hadoop era is over - Jun 30, 2014.
  
  Google says #Hadoop era is over, Google Cloud Dataflow can do much more; Machine learning, data mining, predictive analysis, and advanced analytics ~ same; Do you need a Masters Degree to become a Data Scientist? ; Larry Page: "if we data mined health care data, we could save 100K lives next year".

  Tags: Data Scientist, Dataflow, Google, Hadoop, Healthcare, Master of Science

• Do you need a Masters Degree to become a Data Scientist? - Jun 27, 2014.
  
  Leading analytics experts answer the question: "Do you need a Masters Degree to become a Data Scientist?" Read practical tips and interesting commentary.

  Tags: Data Science Education, Data Scientist, LinkedIn Groups, Master of Science

• Netflix: Senior Data Scientist, Streaming Science & Algorithms - Jun 18, 2014.
  
  Join Streaming Science and Algorithms team, find ways to improve the streaming Quality of Experience using algorithms applied to big data.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Los Gatos-CA, Netflix, Stream Mining

• SAP: Senior Data Scientist - Jun 16, 2014.
  
  Apply machine learning to glean real time intelligence from the largest trading partner network on the planet. Work on internet scale optimization problems and solve complex business problems with a smart and passionate team.

  Tags: Ariba, Data Scientist, SAP, Sunnyvale-CA

• Thomson Reuters: Data Scientist (Data Innovation Lab) - Jun 13, 2014.
  
  Seeking a passionate Scientist as of the founders of the Data Innovation Lab. Looking for a proven record of building data-driven insights to address complex business problems.

  Tags: Boston-MA, Data Scientist, Thomson Reuters

• LivingSocial: Data Scientist - Jun 11, 2014.
  
  Delivering insightful solutions to complex problems to impact the next generation of products at LivingSocial. Analyzing enormous volumes of data on customers, merchant offers and channels, and developing advanced statistical algorithms to solve unique problems.

  Tags: Data Scientist, LivingSocial, Washington-DC

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jun 9-10: Numeric Matrix Manipulation: Cheat Sheet; The First Law of Data Science - Jun 11, 2014.
  
  Also - The First Law of Data Science: Do Umbrellas Cause Rain? ; Tell Your Kids to be Data Scientists - Not Doctors; DLib Library for Machine Learning

  Tags: Causation, Cheat Sheet, Correlation, Data Scientist, Julia, numpy

• Free Data Science Workshops at Bournemouth University, UK, June 9-10 - May 27, 2014.
  
  2 Data Science Workshops: "Data scientist: The sexiest job of the 21st century?" and "Data as a utility and analytics as a service". Attendance is free, but registration required.

  Tags: Bournemouth, Data Scientist, Workshop

• Data Scientists Not Required: Promises the recently launched Alteryx Analytics 9.0 - May 4, 2014.
  
  Alteryx Analytics 9.0 blends new sources of customer Insight such as Social Media, Google Analytics, and Marketo with data from legacy environments such as SAS Analytics.

  Tags: Alteryx, Amazon, Data blending, Data Scientist, Google Analytics, Pivotal

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Apr 28-29 - Apr 30, 2014.
  
  9 Free Books for Learning Data Mining; Cartoon: Data Scientist Salary Negotiation; statsTeachR - great free resource; What every Data Scientist needs to know about SQL.

  Tags: Cartoon, Data Scientist, Free ebook, R, SQL

• KDnuggets 14:n10, Data Scientist Salary examined; Big Data Highlights; Michael Brodie Interview - Apr 30, 2014.
  
  Latest analytics/data mining news, including Features, Opinions, Software, News, Webcasts, Courses, Meetings, Jobs, Academic positions, Publications, Top Tweets, and CFP.

  Tags: Cartoon, Data Scientist, Medicare, Michael Brodie

• Cartoon: Data Scientist Salary Negotiation - Apr 29, 2014.
  
  New KDnuggets Cartoon looks at Data Scientist Salary Negotiation situation.

  Tags: Cartoon, Data Scientist, Hadoop, Salary

• Top stories for Apr 20-26 - Apr 27, 2014.
  
  Elusive Data Scientists Driving High Salaries; Data Workflows for Machine Learning; New Book: Social Media Mining - free PDF download; Microsoft Expands Big Data Platform.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Machine Learning, Microsoft, Paco Nathan, Salary, Social Media Analytics

• Elusive Data Scientists Driving High Salaries - Apr 21, 2014.
  
  Recent study tracks experience, salary, industry and location of Data scientists, finds they are earning base salaries over $200K. Download free report.

  Tags: Burtch Works, Data Scientist, free download, Salary, Survey

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Apr 11-13: Influential Data Scientists on Twitter; Data Analytics Handbook – free download - Apr 14, 2014.
  
  Influential Data Scientists on Twitter and what they do now; Data Analytics Handbook - Interviews with Data Scientists and CEO, free download; An Introduction to Deep Learning in Java; #BigData Salaries for Data Analysts, Data Scientists, DBAs

  Tags: Data Scientist, Deep Learning, free download, Interview, Java, Salary, Twitter

• Top stories for Mar 30 – Apr 5: Exclusive Interview – LinkedIn Economic Graph - Apr 6, 2014.
  
  Is Data Scientist the right career path - Candid advice; Exclusive: Interview with Sriram Sankar - LinkedIn Economic Graph; Information Management 10 More Big Data Companies; Top stories in March: Machine Learning in 7 Pictures.

  Tags: Career, companies, Data Scientist, Economic Graph, LinkedIn

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Apr 2-3: Data scientists need their GitHub; How to make Data Scientist job less tedious - Apr 4, 2014.
  
  Also Top stories in March: Machine Learning in 7 Pictures; import.io adds authenticated APIs, command line crawlers.

  Tags: API, Data Scientist, GitHub, import.io, Machine Learning, Pictures

• KDnuggets 14:n08, Is Data Scientist the right career path for you? FiveThirtyEight stumbles - Apr 3, 2014.
  
  Latest analytics/data mining news, including candid advice on Data Scientist career, FiveThirtyEight stumbles on climate change, Boston Panel on Next Big Thing in Big Data, and White House/MIT Big Data Privacy Workshop report.

  Tags: Big Data, Career, Data Scientist, FiveThirtyEight, MIT, Next Big Thing, Privacy, White House

• Top stories in March: Machine Learning in 7 Pictures; How Many Data Scientists? - Apr 2, 2014.
  
  Also - The Dos and Donts of Data Mining; Is Data Scientist the right career path for you - Candid advice.

  Tags: Advice, Career, Data Mining, Data Scientist, Machine Learning, Pictures, Top stories

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Mar 28-30: SAS vs R vs Python, ecosystem comparison; Practical Data Science with R - Mar 31, 2014.
  
  SAS vs. R vs. Python - Which should you learn?; New Book: Practical Data Science with R ; Is Data Scientist the right career path for you? Candid advice; Must read books for people interested in Analytics.

  Tags: Advice, Book, Career, Data Scientist, Python, R, SAS

• Top stories for Mar 23-29 - Mar 30, 2014.
  
  Data Scientists Salary Poll: US, Canada, Australia lead; Is Data Scientist the right career path for you? New Book: Practical Data Science with R; Test your numbersense.

  Tags: Book, Career, Data Scientist, Dell, Numbersense, R, Salary, StatSoft

• Is Data Scientist the right career path for you? Candid advice - Mar 28, 2014.
  
  Candid advice from an industry veteran reveals the true picture behind the much-talked-about Data Scientist "glamour" and helps people have the right expectations for a Data Science career.

  Tags: Advice, Career, Data Science, Data Scientist, Hadoop, Paco Nathan, Recommendation, Visualization

• Data Scientists Salary Survey: US, Canada, Australia lead - Mar 21, 2014.
  
  Data Scientists Salary Survey shows that industry data scientists are in a sweet spot, especially in US, Canada, and Australia, with average salary $135K. European and Asian data scientists salaries are significantly lower.

  Tags: Asia, Australia, Canada, Data Scientist, Europe, Industry, Poll, Salary, USA

• Predictive Analytics Marketplaces: Viable Solution to the Data Scientist Shortage Crisis? - Mar 18, 2014.
  
  We examine strengths and weaknesses of several approaches for alleviating the shortage of data scientists.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Marketplace, Predictive Analytics, Shortage, Strengths, Weaknesses

• Top stories for Mar 9-15: How Many Data Scientists? - Mar 16, 2014.
  
  How Many Data Scientists are out there? LIONbook: Machine Learning + Intelligent Optimization - completed, free personal download; Boston AnalyticsWeek: Big Data and Analytics Unconference, March 24-28; Upcoming Webcasts on Analytics, Big Data, Data Science.

  Tags: Boston-MA, Data Scientist, free download, LIONbook, Machine Learning, Optimization, Unconference

• How Many Data Scientists are out there? - Mar 13, 2014.
  
  We examine indeed, LinkedIn, Kaggle, and other sources to investigate how many data scientists - in name and in function - are out there, and how strong is the demand.

  Tags: Data Scientist, indeed, Kaggle, LinkedIn, McKinsey

• Cartoon: Data Scientist Valentine Day Prediction - Feb 13, 2014.
  
  New KDnuggets cartoon looks at a Data Scientist Valentine's Day prediction.

  Tags: Cartoon, Data Scientist, Humor, Valentine's Day

• R2: Data Scientist - Jan 30, 2014.
  
  Looking for a data scientist with the curiosity to derive new insights from data and the drive to deliver that insight into production, to help our clients to transform their practice in the industry.

  Tags: Canada, Data Scientist

• Data Scientist, Engineering-24520 - Jan 13, 2014.
  
  Help build the next generation of products for digital marketing, work on research and development projects ranging from predicting on-line ads performance to modeling algorithm implementation in production systems.

  Tags: Adobe, Data Scientist, Online advertising, San Jose

• Data Scientist Valentine’s Day Adjustment - Feb 15, 2013.
  
  Data Scientists may have the sexiest profession of the 21st century, but how do they solve their Valentine's Day problem? New KDnuggets Cartoon examines a solution.

  Tags: Data Scientist, Scarlett Johansson, Valentine's Day