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To gain the competitive edge, companies must master the ability to innovate.
- Hilary Mason
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#Edge
#Gain
#Master
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My Grinnell education didn't prepare me directly for the work that I'm doing, but it did give me the tools that I needed to focus my curiosity.
- Hilary Mason
#Curiosity
#Education
#Focus
#Me
#Work
I think of 'data science' as a flag that was planted at the intersection of several different disciplines that have not always existed in the same place. Statistics, computer science, domain expertise, and what I usually call 'hacking,' though I don't mean the 'evil' kind of hacking.
- Hilary Mason
#Data
#Evil
#Hacking
#Place
#Science
I'm very lucky to work at bitly, with a data set that allows us to explore human social behavior at the scale of human social behavior.
- Hilary Mason
#Behavior
#Data
#Human
#Us
#Work
It's rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology.
- Hilary Mason
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#Problem
#Rare
#Solve
#Technology
Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.
- Hilary Mason
#Failing
#Go
#Learning
#Practice
#Science
As your competitors learn more, you'll need to learn, too.
- Hilary Mason
#Competitors
#Learn
#More
#Need
#Your
In tech entrepreneurship, even a lot of hack events tend to be overly commercial in that they're designed to produce companies.
- Hilary Mason
#Commercial
#Entrepreneurship
#Events
In some ways, chocolate chip cookie recipes are my favorite algorithms. You put a bunch of bad-for-you stuff in a bowl and get a delicious result.
- Hilary Mason
#Bowl
#Chocolate
#Delicious
#Get
#Result
The sender and subject line are actually the most important parts of an e-mail because people tend to put more important information in the subject.
- Hilary Mason
#Important
#Information
#More
#People
I think e-mail should be sorted by importance, not by time.
- Hilary Mason
#Importance
#Should
#Sorted
#Think
#Time
Even smaller companies are putting resources behind their analytics teams in the same way they put resources behind engineering and product teams. There are some great tools out there that allow even tiny businesses to use data effectively.
- Hilary Mason
#Data
#Engineering
#Great
#Product
#Way
My job is to analyze our data set to understand it and build products on it. I look at raw data, do the math to clean it up, and build systems to make it easy to understand.
- Hilary Mason
#Clean
#Data
#Easy
#Look
#Understand
After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in addition to teaching and working on research. I built a program that crawled job boards to determine which skills employers value, which helped Johnson & Wales explore ways to improve its curriculum.
- Hilary Mason
#Curriculum
#Job
#Research
#School
#Value
Data is a tool for enhancing intuition.
- Hilary Mason
#Data
#Enhancing
#Intuition
#Tool
Technology is giving companies superpowers to compete more intelligently and capture the data behind changing trends, expanding markets, and new opportunities.
- Hilary Mason
#Behind
#Data
#New
#Technology
#Trends
Don't take advice you see on the Internet too seriously!
- Hilary Mason
#Advice
#Internet
#See
#Seriously
#Take
The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before.
- Hilary Mason
#Advantage
#Data
#Know
#Something
#World
If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for long.
- Hilary Mason
#Chance
#Find
#Good
#Long
#Obscure
It's a huge competitive advantage to see in real time what's happening with your data.
- Hilary Mason
#Competitive
#Data
#Real
#See
#Time
I'm really curious about people - what their desires and interests are - and bit.ly's data tell me that. It gives me an unprecedented window into human communication and behavior.
- Hilary Mason
#Behavior
#Communication
#Me
#Window
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