We recently rejected an application from a candidate who listed their most recent assignment as being a Data Scientist at Kroger – the large US Grocery chain. This candidate’s claims of their responsibilities at Kroger could be summarized in the following bullet points copied from their resume: Needless to say, this set off all kinds […]
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Data Science / Predictive Analytics / Artificial Intelligence Is Largely About Extrapolation At its heart, predictive analytics is about making educated guesses regarding the future based on things you know about the past. Thus, the field assumes that the future will work like the past did. But, what if the future doesn’t look anything like the past?
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A Dearth of College Football Getting You Down? In these unprecedented times, an unprecedented number of college football games will not be played. In another unprecedented decision, the University of Georgia recently announced that their beloved mascot- Uga the Bulldog – will not be making on-field appearances this season due to Covid safety restrictions… thereby
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“Tell me more about your work at X” As a standard part of our application process, we have candidates answer some basic questions such as: -Name-Current Employer-Current Title Then we ask a few more role specific questions, to help get a better understanding of the candidate’s skill set, and give them a chance to flesh
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As it turns out, this question (and variations of it) is one of the most frequently asked questions about data science that users search for via Google – as well as on other community platforms such as Reddit or Quora. While opinions on this may differ depending on who you ask and the particular lens
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WARNING: YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE AI ZONE!Imagine if you will, a world where all of the images in a Dataspace newsletter have been generated by AI… and therefore are both distorted and unsettling. To be honest, the title of this newsletter may also be a bit distorted and misleading – at this point in
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So, this line appeared on a candidate resume I was reviewing today… Migrated the Django database from SQLite to MySQL to PostgreSQL In fact, it appeared on resumes for two different people I reviewed today. And, a quick search of our past candidates database indicates that it appears on at least five other resumes! Let\’s
For those who think there’s a lot of fraud in resumes today… you\’re right! We\’ve seen thousands of resumes over the years and, undoubtedly, we’ve seen a lot of fraudulent ones. With resume fraud being so rampant, separating out fraudulent submissions is a critical piece of what we offer our staffing and recruiting customers. Spotting
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As we discussed in what may be our most viewed Dataspace blog post (ever!), insurance is one of the oldest data science based businesses – using math to make predictions about the future. In today\’s post, we’ll be highlighting some ways in which data science has infiltrated, influenced, and innovated the insurance industry! There are
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As you move your infrastructure to the cloud, it’s important to consider how to not become beholden to a single cloud vendor. In other words, to attain cloud neutrality. I’m afraid that I don’t have all the answers on how to do this, but I do have some thoughts. In any case, I recommend that
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