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17%OFFSebastian Gutierrez - Data Scientists at Work - 9781430265986 - V9781430265986
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Data Scientists at Work

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Description for Data Scientists at Work Paperback. Num Pages: 364 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: UNC; UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 528.

Data Scientists at Work is a collection of interviews with sixteen of the world's most influential and innovative data scientists from across the spectrum of this hot new profession. "Data scientist is the sexiest job in the 21st century," according to the Harvard Business Review. By 2018, the United States will experience a shortage of 190,000 skilled data scientists, according to a McKinsey report.

Through incisive in-depth interviews, this book mines the what, how, and why of the practice of data science from the stories, ideas, shop talk, and forecasts of its preeminent practitioners across diverse industries: social network (Yann LeCun, ... Read more

Each of these data scientists shares how he or she tailors the torrent-taming techniques of big data, data visualization, search, and statistics to specific jobs by dint of ingenuity, imagination, patience, and passion. Data Scientists at Work parts the curtain on the interviewees’ earliest data projects, how they became data scientists, theirdiscoveries and surprises in working with data, their thoughts on the past, present, and future of the profession, their experiences of team collaboration within their organizations, and the insights they have gained as they get their hands dirty refining mountains of raw data into objects of commercial, scientific, and educational value for their organizations and clients.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Apress
Condition
New
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9781430265986
SKU
V9781430265986
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Sebastian Gutierrez
Sebastian Gutierrez is a data entrepreneur who has founded three data-related companies: DataYou (data science and data visualization consulting and education), LetsWombat (data-driven product sampling), and Acheevmo (athletic performance statistics). He was formerly an emerging markets risk manager at Scotia Capital and an FX options trader at JP Morgan and Standard Chartered Bank.Gutierrez provides training in data visualization and D3.js ... Read more

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