Yet another way of classifying data scientists

There are many axes along which we can classify data scientists. We can classify based on the primary specialty, in terms “analytics”, “business intelligence” and “machine learning”. We can classify based on domain, into “financial data scientists” and “retail data scientists” and “industrial data scientists”. We can classify by the choice of primary software tool,…

Stirring the pile efficiently

Warning: This is a technical post, and involves some code, etc.  As I’ve ranted a fair bit on this blog over the last year, a lot of “machine learning” in the industry can be described as “stirring the pile”. Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with this image from XKCD by now: Basically…

Data Science and Software Engineering

I’m a data scientist. I’m good with numbers, and handling large and medium sized data sets (that doesn’t mean I’m bad at handling small data sets, of course). The work-related thing that gives me most kicks is to take a bunch of data and through a process of simple analysis, extract information out of it.…