Hilary Mason Quotes:
As your competitors learn more, you’ll need to learn, too.
Hilary Mason
Don’t take advice you see on the Internet too seriously!
Hilary Mason
The sender and subject line are actually the most important parts of an e-mail because people tend to put more important information in the subject.
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In some ways, chocolate chip cookie recipes are my favorite algorithms. You put a bunch of bad-for-you stuff in a bowl and get a delicious result.
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In tech entrepreneurship, even a lot of hack events tend to be overly commercial in that they’re designed to produce companies.
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The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn’t know before.
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Data science requires having that cultural space to experiment and work on things that might fail.
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I think e-mail should be sorted by importance, not by time.
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Companies that rely on licensing a proprietary dataset should expect to be outpaced by competitors using modern data collection techniques and more frequent updates and greater accuracy.
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I think of ‘data science’ as a flag that was planted at the intersection of several different disciplines that have not always existed in the same place. Statistics, computer science, domain expertise, and what I usually call ‘hacking,’ though I don’t mean the ‘evil’ kind of hacking.
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Data science is the combination of analytics and the development of new algorithms.
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The job of the data scientist is to ask the right questions.
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A lot of people seem to think that data science is just a process of adding up a bunch of data and looking at the results, but that’s actually not at all what the process is.
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Deep learning allows you to create predictive models at a level of quality and sophistication that was previously out of reach. And so deep learning also enhances the product function of data science because it can generate new product opportunities.
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Cool innovation might happen in startups, but they often lack the resources or the deep expertise in the problems they want to address.
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Even smaller companies are putting resources behind their analytics teams in the same way they put resources behind engineering and product teams. There are some great tools out there that allow even tiny businesses to use data effectively.
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I’m very lucky to work at bitly, with a data set that allows us to explore human social behavior at the scale of human social behavior.
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Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.
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A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.
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I hope that, in the future, data is used to empower people and not just for marketing purposes.
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It’s rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology.
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You really need to have a lot of empathy for the work you’re doing and the people who you’re ultimately trying to help, whether that’s a business colleague, a boss, or, ultimately, the user of the software you’re building.
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I grew up as a computer scientist, and I’ve always been fascinated by algorithms.
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