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  • Patterns for Connecting Predictive Models to Software Products

    calendar Jul 12, 2016 · 9 min read · machine learning data science software engineering R  ·
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    This post was originally published on Medium You’re a data scientist, and you’ve got a predictive model — great work! Now what? In many cases, you need to hook it up to some sort of large, complex software product so that users can get access to the predictions. Think of LinkedIn’s People You May Know, which mines your …


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  • Thoughts on Managing Data Science Team Workstreams (and a Shiny app)

    calendar Jan 28, 2016 · 7 min read · data science management business R Shiny  ·
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    This post was originally published on Medium Data Scientist (n.): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. — Josh Wills (@josh_wills) May 3, 2012 There are different types of data scientists, with different backgrounds and career …


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  • Building a Complementary Data Science Team

    calendar Nov 23, 2015 · 3 min read · data science management business job titles  ·
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    This post was originally published on Medium I’m the Director of Data Science at EAB, a firm that provides best-practices research and enterprise software for colleges and universities. My team is responsible for the predictive models and other advanced analytics that are part of the Student Success Collaborative …


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  • INFORMS Business Analytics 2014 Blog Posts

    calendar Aug 2, 2014 · 3 min read · analytics data science operations research  ·
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    Earlier this year, I attended the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & Operations Research, in Boston. I was asked beforehand if I wanted to be a conference blogger, and for some reason I said I would. This meant I was able to publish posts on the conference’s WordPress web site, and was also obliged to do …


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  • Why a Data Community is Like a Music Scene -- Resources

    calendar Oct 26, 2013 · 1 min read · conferences data science  ·
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    On Monday, October 28th, 2013, I gave a 5-minute Ignite talk entitled “Why a Data Community is Like a Music Scene” at an event associated with the Strata conference. Here’s the video: And here are the acknowledgements and references for the talk: Data Community DC How Music Works, by David Byrne my slides for the …


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  • More posts on the Data Community DC blog

    calendar Feb 21, 2013 · 1 min read · data science meta  ·
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    For those people (or, more likely, 0 or 1 persons) who follow this blog to catch up on my professional thoughts: I’ve been doing a little bit of writing on the Data Community DC blog. Here are all my posts over there: http://datacommunitydc.org/blog/author/harlan/ I’d definitely encourage you to read everyone else’s …


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  • Communication and the Data Scientist

    calendar Oct 23, 2012 · 1 min read · analytics conferences data science survey video  ·
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    I recently gave a presentation on communication issues around the terms “Data Science” and “Data Scientist”, based in part on a survey that I did with my Meetup colleagues Marck and Sean. The basic idea is that these new, extremely-broad buzzwords have resulted in confusion, which has impacted the ability of people …


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  • integrating R with other systems

    calendar Jun 16, 2012 · 1 min read · analytics conferences data science meetup programming R  ·
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    I just returned from the useR! 2012 conference for developers and users of R. One of the common themes to many of the presentations was integration of R-based statistical systems with other systems, be they other programming languages, web systems, or enterprise data systems. Some highlights for me were an update to …


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  • Survey of Data Science / Analytics / Big Data / Applied Stats / Machine Learning etc. Practitioners

    calendar May 10, 2012 · 1 min read · analytics data science meta operations research R survey  ·
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    As I’ve discussed here before, there is a debate raging (ok, maybe not raging) about terms such as “data science”, “analytics”, “data mining”, and “big data”. What do they mean, how do they overlap, and perhaps most importantly, who are the people who work in these fields? Along with two other DC-area Data Scientists, …


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  • Data Science, Moore's Law, and Moneyball

    calendar Sep 27, 2011 · 5 min read · analytics data science meetup  ·
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    I’m fond of navel gazing, meta discussions, and so forth. I’ve recently written about inferring navel gazing from link data, and about the meaning of the “Analytics” buzzword. This post will be my second on that other infectious buzzword, “Data Science”. When I moved to Washington DC in July, I was struck by the fact …


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