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Nov 2017
25m 20s

The Kaggle Survey on Data Science

Ben Jaffe And Katie Malone
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Want to know what's going on in data science these days?  There's no better way than to analyze a survey with over 16,000 responses that recently released by Kaggle.  Kaggle asked practicing and aspiring data scientists about themselves, their tools, how they find jobs, what they find challenging about their jobs, and many other questions.  Then Kaggle relea ... Show More
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