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

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


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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. — @spite.vc on bluesky (@josh_wills) May 3, 2012 There are different types of data scientists, with different backgrounds and …


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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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  • Communicating A/B Test Results for Conversion Rates with Ratios and Uncertainty Intervals
  • Staff Data Scientist: Comments on Will Larson's Staff Engineer Book

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