data scientists
4 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Alex Rampell · across every show →
Everything said about data scientists, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019
Hiring specialized data scientists before accumulating data causes high employee churn
“I often advise companies where they say, oh, you know, we're going to hire these five data scientists, but they don't have any data yet. And what they don't really realize is that if these are, if they're data scientists who are happy to take out the trash and…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Large data sets create a talent magnet for top data scientists
“If you're the one with the big giant corpus, you'll attract the very best data scientists because they'll want to dive into that. They'll come up with the right features and the right ideas, and that will be another sort of effect on top.”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Spisak: Business intelligence is on its last legs as analytics shifts
“I don't want to say BI is dead, but it's, you know, it's on its last leg. I think everyone wants to move to more predictions, actionable, prescriptive analytics, and you can't do that when you're just kind of looking at pretty pictures. So I think we're seeing…”