Comments on: Data Science and Moneyball: A Profile of Pete Skomoroch, Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn

By: Topology and data analysis: Gunnar Carlsson and Ayasdi | Follow the Data

Topology and data analysis: Gunnar Carlsson and Ayasdi | Follow the Data — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:19:53 +0000

[...] how many famous data scientists have come out of a biology/bioinformatics background. Names like Pete Skomoroch, Toby Segaran and Michael Driscoll come to mind, and those were just the ones I thought of [...]

By: Big Data Quotes of the Week: July 20, 2012 | What's The Big Data?

Big Data Quotes of the Week: July 20, 2012 | What's The Big Data? — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:30:17 +0000

[...] “Some of the best data scientists I see often have worked in a few different domains. I think that helps with creativity and problem solving. A nice way to sum data scientists up that I’ve heard: ‘They’re better statisticians than your average programmer and they’re better programmers than your average statistician.’ …on the soft skills side, I’d say they’re often very creative, which probably comes from having domain expertise in a number of areas and how they’ve seen similar problems before. They’re able to think of ways to use data to solve problems that otherwise would have been unsolved or solved using only intuition.”—Pete Skomoroch, LinkedIn [...]

By: EvanZ

EvanZ — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:17:18 +0000

What's the future like for data scientists? One fear I have is that like in other industries, much of the analysis will eventually be automated. Domain expertise will always be important, but if the computational part becomes routine, the data scientist part of the job may not be as important.

By: Generalists make good data scientists « Follow the Data

Generalists make good data scientists « Follow the Data — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:31:54 +0000

[...] few quotes from an interview with Pete Skomoroch at the Metamarkets blog: Some of the best data scientists I see often have worked in a few different domains. I think that [...]