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Hilary Mason
English
Actress
Born:
Sep 4
,
1917
Died:
Sep 5
,
2006
About
Data
People
Science
Think
You
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You really need to have a lot of empathy for the work you're doing and the people who you're ultimately trying to help, whether that's a business colleague, a boss, or, ultimately, the user of the software you're building.
Hilary Mason
Work
You
Business
People
Building
Software
Colleague
Boss
Empathy
Doing
Ultimately
Lot
Trying
Whether
Really
Help
User
Who
Need
In some ways, chocolate chip cookie recipes are my favorite algorithms. You put a bunch of bad-for-you stuff in a bowl and get a delicious result.
Hilary Mason
You
Result
Recipes
Ways
Favorite
Some
Delicious
Put
Stuff
Bowl
Bunch
Get
Chip
Chocolate
Cookie
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.
Hilary Mason
People
Difficult
Easy
Find
Pretty
Both
Pictures
Make
Math
Who
It turns out it's important to build a product and not just a bunch of data models.
Hilary Mason
Important
Build
Out
Data
Bunch
Models
Just
Product
Turns
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.
Hilary Mason
You
Communicate
World
Cause
Trouble
Think
Liberal
Liberal Arts
Approach
Analyze
Out
Huge
Huge Fan
Sending
Arts
Fan
Then
Teaching
The sender and subject line are actually the most important parts of an e-mail because people tend to put more important information in the subject.
Hilary Mason
People
Important
More
Tend
Put
Most
Parts
Because
Important Parts
Line
Subject
The Most Important
Information
Actually
In tech entrepreneurship, even a lot of hack events tend to be overly commercial in that they're designed to produce companies.
Hilary Mason
Events
Tend
Entrepreneurship
Hack
Overly
Lot
Commercial
Produce
Companies
Even
Tech
Designed
The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before.
Hilary Mason
You
World
Before
Tells
About
Something
Data
Advantage
Know
Core
As your competitors learn more, you'll need to learn, too.
Hilary Mason
You
Too
More
Learn
Your
Need
Competitors
The job of the data scientist is to ask the right questions.
Hilary Mason
Job
Right Questions
Data
Scientist
Questions
Ask
Right
I'm very lucky to work at bitly, with a data set that allows us to explore human social behavior at the scale of human social behavior.
Hilary Mason
Work
Behavior
Scale
Data
Very
Human
Social
Us
Explore
Lucky
Set
Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.
Hilary Mason
You
Science
Learning
Practice
Failing
Go
Repeatedly
After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in addition to teaching and working on research. I built a program that crawled job boards to determine which skills employers value, which helped Johnson & Wales explore ways to improve its curriculum.
Hilary Mason
School
Job
Value
Research
Addition
Ways
Determine
Johnson
Joined
Employers
Island
Built
Continue
Wales
Improve
Graduate
Graduate School
Curriculum
After
Rhode
Rhode Island
Which
Boards
Working
Explore
Skills
Teaching
Helped
Professor
Assistant
Program
University
It's rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology.
Hilary Mason
You
Technology
Problem
Rare
Solve
More
I believe there are a lot of inefficiencies in the way technical innovation happens.
Hilary Mason
Innovation
Believe
Way
Lot
Happens
Technical
Data is a tool for enhancing intuition.
Hilary Mason
Tool
Intuition
Data
Enhancing
Value experiences by how much you're learning, and if you're aren't learning, move on.
Hilary Mason
You
Learning
Value
Move On
How
How Much
Move
Experiences
Much
Don't be afraid to push your company in the direction you think is right - you'll either be fired or promoted, and either outcome will end up just fine.
Hilary Mason
You
Will
Think
Outcome
Promoted
Fine
Direction
Fired
Push
End
Up
Just
Afraid
Either
Your
Company
Right
If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for long.
Hilary Mason
Good
You
Long
Find
About
Something
Obscure
Learn
Because
Much
Good Chance
Fascinating
Chance
I don't actually, as a general policy, block any sort of cookies. I keep them all turned on, and that's because I'm willing to make the tradeoff that I let companies gather this information about me in return for a better experience.
Hilary Mason
Me
Experience
Better
Willing
About
General
Make
Return
Policy
Sort
Because
Block
Any
Information
Them
Turned
Cookies
Companies
Keep
Actually
Gather
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.
Hilary Mason
Job
Build
Analyze
Our
Systems
Easy
Data
Clean
Raw
Look
Make
Understand
Math
Up
Products
Set
I wish I'd known more about how to build a startup when I was younger.
Hilary Mason
Wish
Build
Startup
About
More
Known
How
Younger
Nobody really cares about short links, but people do care about saving and sharing content.
Hilary Mason
People
Care
Cares
Saving
About
Sharing
Nobody
Content
Links
Short
Really
People share things that make them look good.
Hilary Mason
Good
People
Share
Look
Make
Them
Things
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