I spoke to Susie Sun, data scientist at WhatsApp, about what data science is, what data scientists do and how business functions should work with them.

Some of the world’s biggest tech companies from Google to Facebook are data-driven, but few startup founders have any idea what a data scientist does, never mind whether they should hire one ...

The term ‘data scientist’ was first coined in 2008. Since then, this role has become an integral part of how modern companies function.

The data scientist role didn’t exist when many of us were in college. It’s mashup of scientific and statistical methods of analyzing data combined with knowing how to use the tools that ...

Think Your Company Needs a Data Scientist? You're Probably Wrong. Ask yourself these four questions before jumping on the data science bandwagon.

Daniel Tunkelang, principal data scientist at LinkedIn, joined LinkedIn in December 2010 and oversees the data science team, which analyzes terabytes of data to produce products and insights that ...

The path to becoming a data scientist is not a clear one. And that’s by design. Consider the data-science team at Alpine Data, a San Francisco software startup that helps companies analyze their ...

When you hear the word "data scientist," what does that term mean to you? Is it the "sexiest job" of the 21st century as the Harvard Business Review suggested? Does it describe a really smart ...

To Become a Data Scientist, There Are 4 Things You Must Do I recommend building up a public portfolio of simple but interesting projects.