Hilary Mason

It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before.

— Hilary Mason

Cool innovation might happen in startups, but they often lack the resources or the deep expertise in the problems they want to…

— Hilary Mason

My job is to analyze our data set to understand it and build products on it. I look at raw data, do…

— Hilary Mason

After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in…

— Hilary Mason

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

— Hilary Mason

The sender and subject line are actually the most important parts of an e-mail because people tend to put more important information…

— Hilary Mason

Data is a tool for enhancing intuition.

— Hilary Mason

It's rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology.

— Hilary Mason

When you start at Bitly, you go through this emotional cycle, where first you go, 'Oh my God, this data is amazing.'…

— Hilary Mason

People share things that make them look good.

— Hilary Mason

I believe technology should give us superpowers. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn to think, analyze, and create with technology.

— Hilary Mason

Companies that rely on licensing a proprietary dataset should expect to be outpaced by competitors using modern data collection techniques and more…

— Hilary Mason

The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before.

— Hilary Mason

Often, people think that individual data is the most valuable thing they can collect. But it's not useful to know what I…

— Hilary Mason

I'm very lucky to work at bitly, with a data set that allows us to explore human social behavior at the scale…

— Hilary Mason

Even smaller companies are putting resources behind their analytics teams in the same way they put resources behind engineering and product teams.…

— Hilary Mason

Don't be afraid to push your company in the direction you think is right - you'll either be fired or promoted, and…

— Hilary Mason

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

Nobody really cares about short links, but people do care about saving and sharing content.

— Hilary Mason

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

I decided that since I was trying to teach 'style' of thinking in science and engineering, and 'style' is an art, I…

— Hilary Mason

Data science requires having that cultural space to experiment and work on things that might fail.

— Hilary Mason

The job of the data scientist is to ask the right questions.

— Hilary Mason

Technology is giving companies superpowers to compete more intelligently and capture the data behind changing trends, expanding markets, and new opportunities.

— Hilary Mason

I think we need more ambition about using our data to make our lives better.

— Hilary Mason