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Insight Health Data Science Expands to Silicon Valley(insighthealthdata.com)
6 points by jakek 10y ago|0 comments
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How Tech Startup Founders Are Hacking Immigration(bloomberg.com)
6 points by jakek 11y ago|0 comments
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Insight Data Labs: Advanced Workshops for Data Scientists and Engineers(insightdatalabs.com)
6 points by jakek 11y ago|0 comments
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Andrew Zirm: An Astrophysicist with a Down-To-Earth Calling(nytimes.com)
3 points by jakek 11y ago|0 comments
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Show Me the Data: Using Graphics for Exploratory Data Analysis(insightdatascience.com)
12 points by jakek 12y ago|1 comments
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Google Retools Its Flu Prediction Engine After Getting It Wrong(blogs.wsj.com)
40 points by jakek 12y ago|3 comments
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Insight Data Engineering Fellows Program applications due Oct 27(insightdataengineering.com)
4 points by jakek 12y ago|0 comments
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by jakek 12y ago
No paywall link: http://bit.ly/1yh5c0D
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by jakek 12y ago
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
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Embracing the Data Variety Challenge(tamr.com)
1 points by jakek 12y ago|0 comments
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Medisas (YC W13), A Company That Saves People's Lives(forbes.com)
30 points by jakek 12y ago|14 comments
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The Rise of the Data Natives(recode.net)
3 points by jakek 13y ago|0 comments
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by jakek 13y ago
The reason for this is that the Insight Data Science Fellows Program is designed for (and only accept applications from) PhDs/postdocs. The new stand-alone Data Engineering program ( http://insightdataengineering.com ) is ope
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by jakek 13y ago
Great to hear. We love skills learned on-the-job. That list is just meant to cast a wide net, so people feel welcome to apply from various backgrounds. The main take-away is that we want people who have the right fundamental skill set, and
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by jakek 13y ago
The Insight Data Science Fellows Program is currently for PhDs only. If you have enough engineering experience, I would suggest applying to the Data Engineering program, which is open to anyone. If not, then drop me a line at jake@insightda
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by jakek 13y ago
The entire program is based entirely around professional data engineers from the mentor companies coming in to share their best practices with the group, which the Fellows than work to implement in their projects. A number of mentors have t
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by jakek 13y ago
For anyone who applies before the end of this weekend, we'll be in touch by mid-week next week with decisions on next steps in the process. Final decisions should be made about 1.5-2 weeks after that. We'll move equally quickly fo
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by jakek 13y ago
Thanks! If you haven't already, I would recommend taking an intro to databases course. A machine learning course would also be helpful, if you have time to take it before you finish. Other than courses, I would try to build some weeken
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by jakek 13y ago
I'm the founder of the Insight Data Science Fellows Program, and the new Insight Data Engineering Fellows Program we just launched above. With the Data Science program, which helps PhDs transition to industry, we're at 70+ alumni
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Making the world better one data scientist at a time(linkedin.com)
2 points by jakek 13y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Find and Watch TV Shows on YouTube with CouchTube.net(insightdatascience.com)
25 points by jakek 13y ago|7 comments
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How Being a Doctor Made Me a Better Founder(inc.com)
28 points by jakek 13y ago|12 comments
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AeroFS Syncs Files Between Computers without Storing Them Online(lifehacker.com)
4 points by jakek 13y ago|3 comments
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Still the Sexiest Profession Alive(blogs.hbr.org)
3 points by jakek 13y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Discover Awesome New Repositories on Github(insightdatascience.com)
13 points by jakek 13y ago|5 comments
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Show HN: A search engine that lets you 'add' words as vectors(insightdatascience.com)
148 points by jakek 13y ago|64 comments
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From PhD to Data Scientist: Tips for Making the Transition(insightdatascience.com)
101 points by jakek 13y ago|87 comments
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Comprehend (YC W11) Raises $8.4M Led by Sequoia to Lower Clinical Trial Costs(blogs.wsj.com)
119 points by jakek 13y ago|40 comments
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Build-your-own-Dropbox service AeroFS (YC S10) now open to the masses(arstechnica.com)
53 points by jakek 14y ago|7 comments
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by jakek 14y ago
You failing is part of your investors business model. They've moved on, they no longer care. This sounds like a negative statement, but it actually has extremely positive repercussion: you no longer have to worry about them AND you have a f

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