Even smaller companies are putting resources behind their analytics teams in the same way they put resources behind engineering and product teams.… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
My Grinnell education didn't prepare me directly for the work that I'm doing, but it did give me the tools that I… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
I joined bit.ly as chief scientist in October of 2009. The company is a URL-shortener and content-sharing platform; we provide tools for… — 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
