Hilary Mason Quotes

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Hilary Mason

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 4, 1917

A lot of people seem to think that data science is just a process of adding up a bunch of data and looking at the results, but that's actually not at all what the process is.

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It's easy to find people who can make pretty pictures, and it's easy to find people who can do math. But it's difficult to find people who can do both.

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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.

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It turns out it's important to build a product and not just a bunch of data models.

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I wish I'd known more about how to build a startup when I was younger.

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Nobody really cares about short links, but people do care about saving and sharing content.

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People share things that make them look good.

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Creating things that people want to tie into their identity is the best way to make them spread.

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I'm a huge fan of the liberal arts approach of teaching you to think, analyze, and communicate, then sending you out into the world to cause trouble.

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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.

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