I think of 'data science' as a flag that was planted at the intersection of several different disciplines that have not always existed in the same place. Statistics, computer science, domain expertise, and what I usually call 'hacking,' though I… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before. — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
Cool innovation might happen in startups, but they often lack the resources or the deep expertise in the problems they want to address. — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
My job is to analyze our data set to understand it and build products on it. I look at raw data, do the math… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in addition to… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go. — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
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… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
It's rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology. — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
When you start at Bitly, you go through this emotional cycle, where first you go, 'Oh my God, this data is amazing.' But then… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
I believe technology should give us superpowers. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn to think, analyze, and create with technology. — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
Companies that rely on licensing a proprietary dataset should expect to be outpaced by competitors using modern data collection techniques and more frequent updates… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before. — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
Often, people think that individual data is the most valuable thing they can collect. But it's not useful to know what I am doing… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
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… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
