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What Does It Take To Be a Qualified Data Scientist?
Everyone is now calling themselves a Data Scientist. No matter what position I am hiring for, that term is on over 80% of the resumes I look at. It has actually made me start to ignore the term because it is not a differentiator of talent any more.
Create Amazing Graph Visualizations Using D3.js
In a follow up to a previous post, I move my Game of Thrones graph into a really cool visualization in Javascript’s D3 library.
An unfathomable act of selfishness?
My genealogical research on my great-great-grandfather revealed a tragically sad story.
What Matters in Speed Dating?
I was interested in finding out what it was about someone during that short interaction that determined whether or not someone viewed them as a match. This is a great opportunity to practice simple logistic regression if you’ve never done it before.
Making Sense of the Game of Thrones Universe Using Community Detection Algorithms
Community detection can help identify a structure in a set of interactions, which has applications to organizational design, but can also be useful in other fields such as digital communications and crime investigation
Politeness is the key to positive workplaces
Is the workplace will getting progressively less polite? And should we be worried about this?
The MBTI is corporate astrology
The MBTI is one of the most unsupported but yet the most used tools in the corporate sector.
The king that graph theory discovered
This is the fourth in a series of articles explaining the principles of networks for those who may use them in a data science context.
Korea’s tanking fertility rate — what does it mean?
This year, South Korea’s fertility rate is expected to drop below 1.00.