Hilary Mason (Chief Scientist, Bitly) Uses This

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by yarapavan • 15 years ago

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pbreit• 15 years ago

"Chief Scientist" always struck me as an odd title for a startup like this. What sort of science is being conducted in URL shortening? Is it one of those cute startup titles or is there some real meaning behind it?

mark_l_watson• 15 years ago

Actually, based on things that she has written, she should probably have the title "Data Scientist" or "Chief Data Scientist." If you are into machine learning read some of her stuff.

hmason• 15 years ago

I started this job before "data scientist" was in common usage. My title was scientist. Then we hired more scientists, so I got a promotion. :)

We build systems on top of the bitly data. This involves things like algorithms for identifying spam and malware, real-time content recommendations (which you can see in http://news.me), categorical analysis, etc.

We also do a few pure research studies, like this one: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/does_your_device_change...

Hilary Mason (Chief Scientist, Bitly) Uses This

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