Introduction I am deeply passionate about 2 fields: Data Science and start-ups. I feel data science is the only way to enable logical decisions in this world and constantly improve yo...

One way to handle big data is to shrink it. If you can identify a small subset of your data set that preserves its salient mathematical relationships, you may be able to perform usefu...

Introduction How do you feel when you get a chance to interview your role model? Some one who has not only gone through the journey himself, but has also seen and helped thousands of ...

Editor’s note: This post was written by Nick Carchedi, a Master’s degree student in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins. He is working with us to develop the Data Science...

Employers want you to be value-adding from day 1. They don't have time to wait 90, 180, or even 360 days for you to start adding value. To that end, having a data science portfolio wh...

You are going to build a data science portfolio in order to showcase your skills. You will use it in order to attract potential employers, as well as something to speak about during t...

When you read online descriptions of data analyst jobs do you feel like you’re not qualified? Do you feel like a cycle repair technician because you aren’t working with terabyte datab...

When interviewing for a data science job you will have to show your programming abilities. You will have to show your math and stats abilities. You will also have to show your busines...

You took a free online course to add to your credentials in hopes of getting a data science job. Perhaps, you’re like a friend who asked us a few weeks ago “Is DataCamp.com okay to pu...

You want to get a data science job, but do you have to move to the San Francisco area to get it? Obviously a great deal of tech companies (from the Facebooks and Netflixes of the worl...

You want to combine your experience in your current professions (called field X) for this article, with your rapidly increasing knowledge of data science. However, you're not sure if ...

We continue answering questions for the nontraditional data science job candidate who recently asked us about how to become a data scientist when their educational background was in m...

Where do you go after you've started learning basic data science? You are already doing some exploratory data analysis with Python or R. You've done some modeling and machine learning...

32 SHARES Share Tweet To post your R job on the next post Just visit this link and post a new R job to the R community. You can post a job for free (and there is also a “featured job”...

Machine learning researchers are on a mission to make machines understand speech directly from audio input, like humans do. At the Neural Information Processing Systems conference thi...