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3 Analytics Leaders on Building Efficient Teams

What makes an analytics team great? To find out, we interviewed the leaders of three. Our discussion ranged from team structure, to mission-driven motivation, to measurement of success. Their responses can help other folks steering analytics ships of their own form high-level philosophies to keep their teams on track.

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3 Analytics Leaders on Building Efficient Teams

July 18, 2018• 5 minute read

What makes an analytics team great? To find out, we interviewed the leaders of three. Our discussion ranged from team structure, to mission-driven motivation, to measurement of success. Their responses can help other folks steering analytics ships of their own form high-level philosophies to keep their teams on track.

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Tayler Mehit

Associate Marketing Manager

The Big Four Reasons Companies Struggle to Hire Data Talent

July 11, 2018• 4 minute read

Between the thousands of data scientists, analysts and others who use Mode every day, and the hundreds of companies that run their analytical operations on Mode, we hear from both sides of the data talent market. From these conversations, we've noticed some common reasons that companies struggle to hire data talent:

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Derek Steer

CEO

The Future of Data Engineering is the Convergence of Disciplines

June 7, 2018• 7 minute read

Jasmine Tsai got her first taste of data engineering through a common gateway: she was tasked with a data project as a software engineer. Tsai was part of a team that rewrote Change.org’s non-profit subscriptions system from scratch, to turn it into a stream processing system. This project introduced her to working with data problems.

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Liam Hausmann

Content Marketing

How to Attract Top Data Science Talent: Lessons from 1,400+ Insight Fellows

May 1, 2018• 9 minute read

When Jake Klamka founded Insight Data Science in 2011, the term “data science” had a much different understanding in the private sector than it does today.

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Liam Hausmann

Content Marketing

5 Data Scientists on Making the Leap from Academia to Industry

March 28, 2018• 8 minute read

As an academic discipline, data science is bigger than ever, and still growing. Inside Higher Ed recently reported that 303 new accredited data science programs have been founded in the U.S. since 2010, an increase of 52 percent. A 2017 report from the Business-Higher Ed Forum found a huge demand for graduates with data science and analytics skillsets, and recommended that universities make data science courses a requirement for all students.

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Marissa Gemma

Writer

Resources for Data Science Job Seekers

February 12, 2018• 7 minute read

Getting your first job in data science can be a full-time job all on its own. Simply finding a job post worth applying to can be a chaotic pursuit (though we've tried to make that part easier with our Data Jobs Board). Once you've found a job posting that looks like it could be a fit, you need to make sure you stand out from the crowd of other applicants.

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Sadavath Sharma

Data Scientist

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