Sara Vera Data Scientist at Insightly

sarav@insight.ly

The Art of Hiring Awesome Data Scientists

• The Hub of Your Communication, Sales and Collaboration • Small Business Focus (1-200 Employees) • General, All Purpose Customer Tracking • Integrated CRM & Project Management • Multiple Access Platforms (Web, Mobile App etc)

Why Insightly?

Key Integrations: • Google Apps/Gmail • Dropbox • Outlook 2013/Office 365 • MailChimp • Import2 • Evernote • Google + Hangouts • PandaDoc • Quickbooks Online

Google+ Hangouts • Zapier etc

How do you find awesome data scientists

when the supply is smaller than the demand?

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/08/the-question-to-ask-before-hiring-a-data-scientist/

FirstDefine your needs

Ask yourself: Is our data scientist producing analytics for machines or humans?

Analytics for Machines or People?• e.g. Ad targeting,

recommendation engines

• Need strong mathematical, statistical and computational fluency to build models that can quickly make good predictions

• e.g. Analyzing products, understanding user growth and retention, producing reports

• Need to be able to tell a story from the data, drawing conclusions about the “how” and “why”

Hire for talent, train for tech skills

Second

Analytical thinking and good communication skills are harder to teach than SQL, Python, R, Java…

ThirdBroaden your pool of candidates

Diversity

Increases your revenuePromotes innovationProvokes more thought, jolts cognitive action

Think outside the box when looking

RememberDefine your data needs

Hire for talent, teach tech skills

Look outside the box for a diverse pool

Data. You can do it!

Sara Vera sarav@insight.ly

Thank You