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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DATA SCIENTIST
ADAM ROGERSDATA SCIENTIST, JANE.COM3-17-16
http://iwastesomuchtime.com/on/?i=109570
“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
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kuz/DeepMind-Atari-Deep-Q-Learner/master/gifs/breakout.gif
SO WHAT DOES A DATA SCIENTIST DO?
MY JOB
THE TOOLS OF THE JOB
THE 3 PILLARS OF JANE DATA SCIENCEhttps://www.iconfinder.com/icons/321735/column_creative_grid_layout_line_outline_pillar_shape_structure_icon
Data-driven products/featur
es
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!