Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century Martial Luyts Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium [email protected]www.ibiostat.be Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics Belgium, 2 May 2016
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Data Scientist:The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
Martial Luyts
Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat)
• Main goal:Find out what people think about their beer, based on social media, blogs, forums,etc.
• Strategy:Over 300 sites were scraped and parsed, and analyzed based on own and existingdictionaries
• Outcome:
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• Job-CV matching (HR company):
• Main goal:Develop an algorithm that automatically recommends the five best CurriculumVitae’s to a particular job description
• Strategy:A neural network is developed in combination with text mining principles andrecommender systems
• Outcome:
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• Churn prediction (shoe company):
• Main goal:Predict when online customers will churn in order to send promotions
• Strategy:Customer segmentation (k-means clustering) with survival analysis to obtain thechance of churning per group (over time)
• Outcome:
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2.2 Facebook, Net ix, Google, ...
• Companies like Facebook, Google, Netflix, etc. investigate a lot in data science
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• Research nowadays at Facebook:Let blind people interact with visual content with the use of data science
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• Research nowadays at Netflix & IMDB:Netflix, imdb and many more uses data science to develop recommender systems,based on previous search results for a user, to improve user experience
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• Research nowadays at Google:Construct self-driving cars with the use of data science
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• Research nowadays at EA sports & SonyGames at EA sport & Sony are now designed using machine learning algorithms whichimprove/upgrade themselves as the player moves up to a higher level. In motiongaming also, your opponent (computer) analyzes your previous moves and accordinglyshapes up its game
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• Research nowadays at FedEx & UPS:Using data science, FedEx and UPS have discovered the best routes to ship, the bestsuited time to deliver, the best mode of transport to choose thus leading to costefficiency, and many more to mention