"Jim from Yelp here, I'm one of the competition admins - sorry for the misunderstanding! The contest is open to all, not just those looking for an interview at Yelp. We tried to make this clear by encouraging happily employed folks to…"
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Are R, SAS, Excel, Tableau or other packages available as Web apps?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Vincent Granville May 9.
What do you think about RExcel?
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Is the risk of a catastrophe 1,000 times bigger than we think?
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Vincent Granville commented on Amy's blog post Yelp won't hire unemployed data scientists
"Also, I think the choice of the context (hiring) and the wording is terrible? Why choosing these words that lead to such misinterpretation? And why not fixing the issue when it was mentioned a week ago? Frankly, why would someone happily employed…"
Vincent Granville commented on Amy's blog post Yelp won't hire unemployed data scientists
"Maybe this whole thing is to get publicity. Just pure PR stuff - bad PR on purpose sure, but it will attract applicants that will use the standard route, not Kaggle, to get a bad interview."
Lisa Kesselman Wells commented on Amy's blog post Yelp won't hire unemployed data scientists
"There are a plethora of issues here. These are Yelp's requirements for entry:
Yelp is so selective that it is necessary to enter a Kaggle contest, write production code to solve a Yelp business problem, in order to be interviewed? And then…"
Michael Goldberg commented on Amy's blog post Yelp won't hire unemployed data scientists
"It is possible to ask Yelp why they worded it that way. Their answer could be a useful piece of data. "
Sajid Zaidi commented on Amy's blog post Yelp won't hire unemployed data scientists
"I think they meant that the competition is also open those people who aren't interested in a Yelp job (because they are happily employed)"
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Yelp won't hire unemployed data scientists
They posted a hiring competition on Kaggle. It says:This competition is open to happily employed members of the public and counts towards rankings & achievements.Interesting. Does it mean that there are many unemployed data scientists applying for their jobs, and Yelp wants to hire employed people only? Or many unemployed (or freelance) data scientists on Kaggle (Kaggle claims to have…See More
Amy replied to Vincent Granville's discussion Normalized odds-ratio
"By the way, if you are a guy interested in dating girls, an easy trick is to attend classes that are traditionally for girls - cooking classes for instance. Or stores that girls visit (Victoria Secret). This is the opposite of what most people do,…"
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- Short Bio:
- Data intelligence professional.
- Field of Expertise:
- Business Analytics, Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Web Analytics, Other
- Years of Experience in Analytical Role:
- 15
- Professional Status:
- Director, Consultant, Other
- Interests:
- Networking, New Venture, Recruiting
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- http://www.analyticbridge.com
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- Internet
- How did you find out about AnalyticBridge?
- Vincent Granville
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Yelp won't hire unemployed data scientists
They posted a hiring competition on Kaggle. It says:
This competition is open to happily employed members of the public and counts towards rankings & achievements…
ContinuePosted on June 6, 2013 at 11:30pm — 6 Comments
Reverse clustering for tactical warfare
I am looking for references on reverse clustering. It consists in identifying actionable metrics that allow you to separate groups detected via non-actionable metrics.
Example:
On a remote planet, we have 6…
ContinuePosted on May 26, 2013 at 1:30pm — 4 Comments
What are the best blogs about data?
Posted on Quora long ago. See below Peter Skomoroch's list. We will publish our list of several hundred websites ranked by popularity, later this month
Click here to read the original post and 43 answers. Are they missing any blogs?…
ContinuePosted on May 5, 2013 at 10:00am
Are data scientists overpaid?
This article was published on ZDNet. Here's my answer:…
ContinuePosted on March 27, 2013 at 7:00pm — 4 Comments
A new way to define centrality
Based on graph theory, thought it looks like it could be based on density estimation as well. Anyway, quite different from the traditional centrality metric such as mean or median (how do you define median in two dimensions).
In the graph below, the more red, the more central the vertex is. The more blue, the more it's on the…
ContinuePosted on March 15, 2013 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments
Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 5:23am on April 23, 2012,
Tom Wolfer said… Hello Amy, I read with great interest your article about Vincent Granville and AnalyticBridge, and it was a great story. I referenced it in a post on my blog:
- At 9:59pm on April 9, 2012,
Ethel Cabanlit said… Amy can you assist me in STATS SPSS/EXCEL PLSSSSS! i am desperate :(
- At 1:22pm on February 20, 2012,
Milorad Krneta said… Hello Amy,
welcome to the group: barely 10 minutes after I started it.
Looking forward to our communications.
Thank you.
Milorad
- At 6:40am on October 17, 2009,
Nicholas Jewczyn said…
- Thanks for just being groovy!
Nick
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