Data Science Innovation

08/06/2022

The video from my talk is now available at

This talk will introduce the foundational business skills you'll need to deliver business value and grow your career as an analyst or data scientist. Drawing...

26/05/2022

Tuesday, June 7, I'll be giving an online talk on business skills for analytics professionals, hosted by . Even though, or maybe because, I've given hundreds of hours of training and written an entire book on the subject, I find it a real challenge to summarize in a 40-minute presentation!

Register at https://online.datasciencedojo.com/events/six-business-skills-critical-data-scientists, and feel free to respond below with any specific questions you might have in advance.

07/06/2021

https://medium.com//six-critical-business-skills-for-data-scientists-6d3a7b959583

Soft skills that will make or break your career

17/07/2020

Video of my recent webinar on Managing Data Science Teams

15/05/2020

It's been two years since Mckinsey invented the term analytics translator, called it the ‘new must-have role’ and predicted we’d need around 5 million of them. (1) FIVE MILLION That’s about the population of Norway.

10/02/2018

Author copies of my book have just arrived. Available for order on amazon.co.uk https://www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Data-Demystified-decisions-competitive/dp/129221810X/

07/06/2017

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/six-types-data-people-you-need-hire-david-stephenson-ph-d-

You’ve decided to make better use of your data, but what are the roles you need to hire? It’s not just the ‘data scientists’. If you want to make

30/05/2017

The video of my presentation at Graph Connect London on the 2 week recommender engine deployment using Neo4j https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sMctFYXW8U

Recommendation engines are critical in today’s ecommerce sector. They dramatically increase sales while simultaneously improving the customer shopping experi...

01/05/2017

Looking forward to speaking in Miami on June 22 at the Global Online Classifieds Summit http://www.globalonlineclassifieds.net

04/04/2017

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-source-why-penguins-apaches-even-microsoft-away-david

Originally, computer code could not be copyrighted in the USA. Paradise was lost in 1980, when copyright law was extended to include computer programs

30/12/2016

Tracking customers’ every step: much more than security cameras
http://eepurl.com/cvAjMn

The Economist Christmas edition contains a fascinating article describing the increased usage by retail stores of customer tracking technology (“Following the fashion” in the Dec 24, 2016 edition). The author describes technology that follows your phone around the aisles (aside: that’s just the tip...