The scariest ghost stories I know take place when the history of data -- how it’s collected, how it’s used, and what it’s meant to represent -- becomes an oral history, passed down as campfire stories from one generation of analysts to another like a spooky game of telephone. These stories include eerie phrases like… Continue reading Field Notes: Building Data Dictionaries
Tag: data science
A Month in the Life of a Data Scientist
A Data Science Tour of Duty
In September 2015, I was looking for a job in Austin and started interviewing at Yodle, a marketing tech company. Yodle was looking for someone with experience in data and predictive analytics, and I was looking for a company where I could learn how to code and work on new, interesting problems. It was a… Continue reading A Data Science Tour of Duty