In order to build a good predictive model, a data scientist has a lot of things to consider. But something that often goes overlooked or undermentioned—likely because it’s not that glamorous—is cleaning the data. You want to build the best mathematical model that works for your data, but a step of tantamount importance is getting […]
If you are part of a small engineering team, you’re more than likely going to end up interviewing another engineer at some point in your career. We all know that being an interviewee is a boondoggle of scheduling, phone screens, code tests, and communication breakdowns. What no one talks much about is that once you’re […]
Update 2/19/2013: This article was picked up by VentureBeat The Times recently published an article describing how employers increasingly rely on internal referrals in hiring. In the age of “spray and pray” job seekers, where the cost of submitting an application is a few recycled electrons, this may seem like a rational solution in the […]
