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What’s the Sexiest Job of The 21st Century?

What makes a job sexy? Money, power, sex appeal? To us, finding a job you love, that is totally in demand (read: people want you), is what’s sexy. With that definition, there is no sexier job these...

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More Women Are Dominating The Field Of Big Data

As you know, women are woefully underrepresented in STEM fields (science, tech, engineering, and math) – making up barely 11% of math faculty, and earning only 18% of computer science degrees. Nearly...

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How To Transform Big Data into Awesome Products

From my past experiences at both large tech companies and small startups, there is a tendency to assign data projects to rockstar developers and let them run with it. The results are often interesting...

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5 Companies Using Data for Social Impact

Can data improve the future of our humanity? You better believe it. “Big data” is more than just big businesses. Every day, social impact groups are finding new and creative ways to act upon the...

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How Can UX Design Make Sense of Big Data?

Big data is just what it sounds like; data so big that it’s not easily processed through conventional methods. However, once this large data set is eventually distilled down, user experience can play...

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3 Ways that Data Affects Mass Media

If you thought the introduction of the commercial Internet changed mass media, take a look at what’s in front of you today. Behind the sites of your favorite newspapers and blogs (yes, even this one),...

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How to Get a Job In Data: A Livestream with Fast Company

We teamed up with Fast Company to host two of the leading minds in data, Claudia Perlich from Dstillery and Marc Maleh from R/GA, at our campus in New York City. Sarah Lawson, an assistant editor at...

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A Framework for Trendspotting

It’s 1977 and a CEO stands at the head of a boardroom and makes a sweeping declaration: “Personal computers will redefine the way business is done in the future.” There is some agreement–and...

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How To Stop Big Data from Creating Big Distance Between You and Your Customers

Source: Datanami In August of this year, a very curious thing happened: The industry analyst firm Gartner, perhaps the closest thing to an official arbiter of buzzed-about technology, dropped “big...

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Announcing General Assembly’s New Data Science Immersive

Data science is “one of the hottest and best-paid professions in the U.S.” More than ever, companies need analytical minds who can compile data, analyze it, and drive everything from marketing...

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The Top 5 Podcasts For Aspiring Data Scientists

Big data may be the buzzword of our time. Our uber-connected world is creating more information than ever before, but data on its own is useless. The value comes from data literate professionals...

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How Can UX Design Make Sense of Big Data?

Big data is just what it sounds like; data so big that it’s not easily processed through conventional methods. However, once this large data set is eventually distilled down, user experience can play...

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3 Ways that Data Affects Mass Media

If you thought the introduction of the commercial Internet changed mass media, take a look at what’s in front of you today. Behind the sites of your favorite newspapers and blogs (yes, even this one),...

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How to Get a Job In Data: A Livestream with Fast Company

We teamed up with Fast Company to host two of the leading minds in data, Claudia Perlich from Dstillery and Marc Maleh from R/GA, at our campus in New York City. Sarah Lawson, an assistant editor at...

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A Framework for Trendspotting

It’s 1977 and a CEO stands at the head of a boardroom and makes a sweeping declaration: “Personal computers will redefine the way business is done in the future.” There is some agreement–and...

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How To Stop Big Data from Creating Big Distance Between You and Your Customers

Source: Datanami In August of this year, a very curious thing happened: The industry analyst firm Gartner, perhaps the closest thing to an official arbiter of buzzed-about technology, dropped “big...

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Announcing General Assembly’s New Data Science Immersive

Data science is “one of the hottest and best-paid professions in the U.S.” More than ever, companies need analytical minds who can compile data, analyze it, and drive everything from marketing...

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The Top 5 Podcasts For Aspiring Data Scientists

Big data may be the buzzword of our time. Our uber-connected world is creating more information than ever before, but data on its own is useless. The value comes from data literate professionals...

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The 3 Essential Qualities of Big Data For The Enterprise

It’s true that Big Data is somewhat of a catchall term. So many different applications and organizations can be lumped underneath the Big Data umbrella that it can be confusing sometimes to know what...

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Meet Data Scientist and GA Instructor Lucy Williams

What is it like to be a data scientist? Glassdoor recently named the best jobs in America, and data scientist came in the number one spot. With high salaries and many job openings, these analytical...

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