[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] Back in 2008, when we were working on what became one of the first papers on big data technologies, one of our first visits was to LinkedIn’s new “data” team. Many of the members of that team went on to build interesting tools andContinue reading “A brief look at data science’s past and future”
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Data Analysis: Just one component of the Data Science workflow
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] Judging from articles in the popular press the term data scientist has increasingly come to refer to someone who specializes in data analysis (statistics, machine-learning, etc.). This is unfortunate since the term originally described someone who could cut across disciplines. Far from being confinedContinue reading “Data Analysis: Just one component of the Data Science workflow”
Data scientists tackle the analytic lifecycle
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] What happens after data scientists build analytic models? Model deployment, monitoring, and maintenance are topics that haven’t received as much attention in the past, but I’ve been hearing more about these subjects from data scientists and software developers. I remember the days when itContinue reading “Data scientists tackle the analytic lifecycle”