Sold to mayuresh.shilotri@gmail.com THE DATA SCIENCE HANDBOOK ADVICE AND INSIGHTS FROM 25 AMAZING DATA SCIENTISTS FORE W O R D B Y J A K E K L A M K A DJ Patil, Hilary Mason, Pete Skomoroch, Riley Newman, Jonathan Goldman, Michael Hochster, George Roumeliotis, Kevin Novak, Jace Kohlmeier, Chris Moody, Erich Owens, Luis Sanchez, Eithon Cadag, Sean Gourley, Clare Corthell, Diane Wu, Joe Blitzstein, Josh Wills, Bradley Voytek, Michelangelo D’Agostino, Mike Dewar, Kunal Punera, William Chen, John Foreman, Drew Conway BY CARL SHAN HENRY WANG WILLIAM CHEN MAX SONG To our family, friends and mentors. Your support and encouragement is the fuel for our fire. CONTENTS Preface by Jake Klamka, Insight Data Science 1 Introduction 4 Chapter 1: DJ Patil, VP of Product at RelateIQ The Importance of Taking Chances and Giving Back Chapter 2: Hilary Mason, Founder at Fast Forward Labs On Becoming a Successful Data Scientist Chapter 3: Pete Skomoroch, Data Scientist at Data Wrangling Software is Eating the World, and It’s Replacing it With Data Chapter 4: Mike Dewar, Data Scientist at New York Times Data Science in Journalism 40 Chapter 5: Riley Newman, Head of Data at AirBnB Data Is The Voice Of Your Customer Chapter 6: Clare Corthell, Data Scientist at Mattermark Creating Your Own Data Science Curriculum Chapter 7: Drew Conway, Head of Data at Project Florida Human Problems Won’t Be Solved by Root-Mean-Squared Error Chapter 8: Kevin Novak, Head of Data Science at Uber Data Science: Software Carpentry, Engineering and Product Chapter 9: Chris Moody, Data Scientist at Square From Astrophysics to Data Science 84 CONTENTS Chapter 10: Erich Owens, Data Engineer at Facebook The Importance of Software Engineering in Data Science Chapter 11: Eithon Cadag, Principal Data Scientist at Ayasdi Bridging the Chasm: From Bioinformatics to Data Science Chapter 12: George Roumeliotis, Senior Data Scientist at Intuit How to Develop Dat