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Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary. Here’s the data.

I contributed some data analysis for Aline Lerner’s latest interviewing.io blog post on the usefulness of technical interview data. Read the full blog post here!

AAAS Webinar: Careers in Data Science

Along with Douglas Mason, I’ll be a speaker later this week on a webinar offered by the AAAS on Careers in Data Science. I’ll be discussing the work that data scientists and data analysts need, and the soft and hard skills a candidate needs to get hired. Learn more about the webinar here.

Text By the Bay 2015: Increasing Honesty in Airbnb Reviews

I gave a talk earlier this week at the Text By the Bay conference on the work we are doing at Airbnb to increase honesty in reviews. A video of the talk can be found below, or at this link

Strata + Hadoop World: If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, Please Say Something: Increasing Honesty in Airbnb Reviews

I gave a talk last week at Strata + Hadoop World about work being done at Airbnb to increase the informativeness of online reviews through field experiments. Learn more about the talk here.

8 Skills You Need to Be a Data Scientist

I wrote a blog post for Udacity titled “8 Skills You Need to Be a Data Scientist.” The post was published today, and the full version can be found here.