Blog

A collection of my thoughts on data science

The academic trap and data science

How to get a data science job after academia without industry experience

February 22, 2018
Prioritizing data science work

Choosing between the many things you could work on

February 15, 2018
Using deep learning to generate offensive license plates

Combining a rich corpus with Keras in R

February 5, 2018
Hiring data scientists (part 4): the case study

The last step in the my data science interview process

February 1, 2018
Choosing the right graduate degree for data science

How to make sense of the many choices available

June 26, 2017
Hiring data scientists (part 3): interview questions

What I ask the candidates and why

May 1, 2017
Getting data science to work

Predictive models are more than just the predictions

April 18, 2017
What I learned from R User Day at Data Day Texas

My key takeaways, and view of the R community as a whole

January 29, 2017
Hiring data scientists (part 2): the perfect candidate doesn't exist

What are the most to least important skills, and the types of people who apply for data science jobs

January 9, 2017
Hiring data scientists (part 1): what to look for in a candidate

The technical and business skills that are critical being a data scientist

January 2, 2017