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Staff Data Scientist: Comments on Will Larson's Staff Engineer Book

May 27, 2022 · 11 min read · data science job titles management ·

I recently read Will Larson's excellent book Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track. Larson covers the individual contributor (IC, not management) roles that software engineers fill after they are promoted past Senior Software Engineer, with titles like Staff and Principal ("Staff-plus"). In …

Building a Complementary Data Science Team

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 …

On "Analytics" and related fields

Apr 15, 2011 · 6 min read · conferences data science job titles operations research statistics ·

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I recently attended the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research, aka “INFORMS Analytics 2011”, conference in Chicago. This deserves a little bit of an explanation. INFORMS is the professional organization for Operations Research (OR) and Management Science (MS), which are terms describing …

"Data Scientist" and other titles

Feb 13, 2011 · 3 min read · data science job titles statistics ·

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Neil Saunders has an interesting (to me) blog post up this morning, with the title “Dumped on by data scientists.” He uses the use of “data scientist” in a Chronicle of Higher Ed article to rant a little bit about the term. For Neil, it’s redundant, as the act of doing science necessarily requires data; it’s insulting, …