2014 Mar Opinions, Interviews

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Is Data Scientist the right career path for you? Candid advice

Candid advice from an industry veteran reveals the true picture behind the much-talked-about Data Scientist "glamour" and helps people have the right expectations for a Data Science career.

on Mar 28, 2014 in Advice, Career, Data Science, Data Scientist, Hadoop, Paco Nathan, Recommendation, Visualization
Fractal Analytics Interview Highlights

Fractal Analytics CEO on starting the company, competing with the best, managing attrition, attributes he looks for when hiring, 4 different analytics career tracks, strategic bets, and advice for starting data scientists.

on Mar 27, 2014 in Advice, Career, Fractal Analytics, Hiring, Interview
Evolution of Fraud Analytics – An Inside Story

The amazing analytic innovations in payment fraud prevention can be grouped into three major categories: large data-set modeling, sparse data-set modeling, and false-positive reductions - a view from the inside.

on Mar 14, 2014 in False positive, FICO, Fraud analytics, Fraud Prevention, Neural Networks, Sparse data
The Do’s and Don’ts of Data Mining

Leading data mining and analytics experts give their favorite do's and don'ts, from "Do plan for data to be messy" to "Do not underestimate the power of a simpler-to-understand solution".

on Mar 1, 2014 in

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