Analytics Dispatch 9/9/2019
The care and feeding of data scientists
EAT UP
The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists
Are you a data scientist manager who had the role thrust upon you? Feel like you don’t have the necessary toolset or role models or mentorship to do the job well? This e-book aims to fill that gap. - O’Reilly
NOW IN 3D
Thoughts On Designing Data Sculptures
Lessons and ideas from ten years of helping people design and make data sculptures. - Rahul Bhargava
WEIGHT-BEARING
loadtest: an R Package for Load Testing
“As APIs become more accessible to the data science community, so should engineering best practices around those APIs. However, most load testing tools are crafted for engineers or testing specialists–so we fixed that.” - T-Mobile Tech
GOTTA CATCH ‘EM ALL
Abstractions
This talk from a Senior Data Visualization Engineer at Netflix covers the role of data visualization abstractions and the importance of creating landmarks between layers of abstraction in data visualization. (And uses a Pokémon example!) - Susie Lu
HEALTHY DISCOURSE
Devoted Health and Data Science with Chris Albon
Centralized data science team or matrixed? How do you choose whom to hire? How do you go from a Political Science Ph.D. to non-profit data science wizard? - Google Cloud Platform Podcast