In 2011, Harvard Business Review described data science as “the sexiest job of the 21st century” — and readers went gangbusters. The tech industry saw a surge of postings and interest for a position that hadn’t officially existed even a few years earlier. But the...
When working with data, it’s easy to fall victim to analysis paralysis. Rather than get down to the task at hand, we can get sidetracked by discussions, such as whether we should impute the mean or mode of a given dataset when handling missing data. As data folks, we...
This question has been plaguing me ever since a recent series of events transpired. The first was when, while attending a data science webinar, one of the presenters commented, “If you can solve it in Excel, then it is not a data science problem.” Not long after, I...
