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by vikp 9y ago
Dataquest | SF | Director of Marketing | Remote, Full-time | $90k - $130k | https://www.dataquest.io At Dataquest, we teach data science interactively online to hundreds of thousands of students worldwide. We're focused on
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Although it would be unfortunate if this was the case, this paragraph from the about page ( https://woz-u.com/about/ ) leads me to think that this is just using Steve Wozniak's name for branding: Inspired by Steve
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Not typical, but possible with the right team/tech/connections. OP said that the local VC scene asks for 1M+ ARR to invest, which led me to think that revenue was lower.
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I haven't seen this advice in this thread yet, but there is a path other than selling or raising VC. It's focusing and growing your revenue until you get through this crunch. We've been in a similar situation before, that we
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Introduction to machine learning using k-NN and Airbnb data(dataquest.io)
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by vikp 9y ago
What really helped me was to: * Uninstall some distracting apps, and block the rest with Appblock * Not check email on weekends, and do outdoor things like hiking instead * Start running as much as possible, for at least 30 minutes 3 times
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by vikp 9y ago
Dataquest | San Francisco, CA | Remote or onsite | Full-time At Dataquest, we teach data science interactively online to hundreds of thousands of students worldwide. We're focused on teaching skills and building intuition from the gro
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I think you're right, if you view "education" as content delivery. I think that for the most motivated people who are willing to learn on their own, education is often just an access problem (hence why so many smart people h
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I barely made it through college, and worked in factories and warehouses during/after school. Because of my bad grades, I thought manual labor jobs were the only ones I could do. I later worked overseas (in Guyana). I've seen man
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I'm the founder of Dataquest ( https://www.dataquest.io ) -- we teach data science online from the basics, and have a comprehensive curriculum that includes machine learning, spark, and data visualization. You can skip the P
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In the original blog post announcing the Gitlab acquisition ( http://blog.gitter.im/2017/03/15/gitter-gitlab-acquisition/ ), there's mention of open sourcing the mobile apps -- "Next piece of wow
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I've worked across a variety of industries, from warehouses to factories to big government bureaucracies to startups. I'd argue that the problem isn't that people don't have the curiosity to become lifelong learners. A
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Dataquest | Data Science/Data Engineering Instructor | San Francisco | Remote okay | $90k-$120k + equity At Dataquest (www.dataquest.io), we teach data science and data engineering to thousands of students around the world every day. W
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Dataquest | Lead Software Engineer | San Francisco | Remote okay | $100k-$140k + significant equity At Dataquest (www.dataquest.io), we data science to thousands of students around the world every day. We teach the concepts behind the code
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8% isn't a bad click through rate, especially if you're sending newsletters weekly. I don't see anything about frequency next to the subscribe button on your homepage, so people may have been expecting something different, w
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Dataquest | San Francisco, CA | Data Scientist| Full-time | Onsite or Remote At Dataquest ( https://www.dataquest.io ), we're building the future of online education. Most online learning has turned into "let me throw up
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I wouldn't pay for daily news, which is usually reasonably binary. I would pay 10-20 a month for a site that had high quality in depth analysis and articles, though. Something like a paid version of longform.org. The articles wouldn&#
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Dataquest | San Francisco, CA | Data Engineer | Full-time | Onsite or Remote At Dataquest ( https://www.dataquest.io ), we're building the future of online education. Most online learning has turned into "let me throw u
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by vikp 11y ago
It's interactive in the sense that if you download the notebooks you can work through them with a local Jupyter installation.
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This is very specific to data science for now, but I'm working on Dataquest ( https://www.dataquest.io ), which has interactive explanations and diagrams. It's almost entirely reading theory and explanations + writing c
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Mark Zuckerberg donated 100 million dollars to Newark public schools a few years ago, and they ended up no better for it (and arguably worse off). Here's a great article on the topic -- http://www.newyorker.com/magazin
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by vikp 11y ago
Dataquest.io | San Francisco | https://www.dataquest.io | Onsite / Remote We're an early stage startup that teaches data science interactively in the browser. You learn by analyzing data and writing code; not by watch
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Off topic, but I use Jekyll for my blog, too. It's compiled to static HTML, sure, but the templating is pretty powerful (downsides of Liquid aside). It's easy to make global changes with templates and CSS. Octopress can make a lo
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Building a way to learn data science online, using python -- https://www.dataquest.io
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An interactive introduction to Spark, using Python(dataquest.io)
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Yes -- I write ~95% of my python code in 3, and scrapy is the only library I commonly use that doesn't support it. Here's a listing of package compatibility: http://py3readiness.org/ .
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I went from being a US diplomat with no coding background to getting a job at edX as a machine learning engineer, so it's very possible. The keys are to find projects and build a portfolio so that you can prove your capabilities, and
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There's a project called Tulalens (www.tulalens.org) that could use help making an android app. They're building "yelp for low income people in the developing world". They surveyed pregnant women in low income areas aro
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Disqus is good for an MVP. It's easy to embed and works well. If you're worried about "owning" the data/community, you could host your own discourse ( http://www.discourse.org/ ) instance and use the
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It depends on how much data you can include in the prediction phase. If you train with karma earned right at the time of the article submission, and then predict with the exact same methodology, it will work fine. If you put in a "fa

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