Originally presented at Hirepalooza by Katie Kent, Director of Outcomes at Galvanize.
Learn how to apply growth hacking techniques to hiring data scientists including:
-The right time to hire a data scientist
-How to interview them reliably
-Specific recommendations about where to find great ones
21. “Data scientist” means different
things to different people.
Example: A Data Scientist at Facebook is a different
species compared to a Data Scientist at Netflix.
27. Great data scientists often have 3
simultaneous offers, so salesmanship
is important.
28. Great data scientists want 3 things:
interesting data, a strong team, and
the opportunity to make an impact.
29. Large data sets
What (Great) Data Scientists Want
Interesting Data Strong Team
Different types of data
Opportunity to
Make an Impact
Accessible data Mentorship
Collaborators
Opportunity to learn Data is a priority.
Greenfield
opportunities.
Creation over
optimization.
31. Auxiliary sources
Maybe your data doesn’t sound like a selling point.
Small Data
Inaccessible data
Fix infrastructure
first.
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>
CHALLENGE SOLUTION
32. Training budget
Maybe your team doesn’t sound like a selling point.
No mentorship.
No daily
collaborators.
Designate partners.
>
>
CHALLENGE SOLUTION
33. Seek an evangelist.
Maybe opportunity for impact isn’t a selling point.
Data not a priority.
Low-hanging fruit
are picked.
Seek a researcher
to push boundaries.
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>
CHALLENGE SOLUTION
Optimization is a
priority.
Seek an operations
researcher.>
37. ‘I get about 300 applications for every
posting.’
- Todd Holloway, Data Science Lead at Trulia for 4 years
who runs the SF Data Mining Meetup
38. Where (Great) Data Scientists Hang Out
Airbnb Nerds
Tech Blogs
Netflix
StitchFix
Technology
Tech Talks
Conferences
Data Science
Meetups
Channels
Twitter
DataTau
Competitions
Public Challenges
39. Most Active Data Science Meetups
SF Data Mining SF Data Science
SF Machine
Learning
SF DataKind
http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-data-
science-big-data-meetups-in-the-San-
Francisco-Bay-Area
Links and
summaries!
Data Science for
Sustainability
Bay Area Women
in ML & DS
40. Interesting Data Science Conferences
O’Reilly Strata MLConf PyData
DataWeek PAW
The Data Science
Summit
41. Great Examples of Tech Blogs
Airbnb Nerds
Stitchfix
Technology
Netflix Technology
•nerds.airbnb.com/data/
•http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/
2015/03/31/advice-for-data-scientists/
•http://techblog.netflix.com/
43. Data Science Twitter Celebrities
•@hmason - Formerly Accel
•@mrogati - VP of Data, Jawbone
•@djpatil - Chief Data Scientist, The White House
•@peteskomoroch, Formerly Linkedin
•@josh_wills, Dir. Data Science, Cloudera
•@johnmyleswhite, Co-author of Machine Learning for
Hackers
•@hackingdata, Formerly Chief Scientist at Cloudera
•@bigdata, Chief Data Scientist at O’Reilly Media
giladlotan.com/2012/11/mapping-twitters-python-
data-science-communities/