DJ Patil Greylock PartnersThe things I wish I knew - lessons learned
from making data product
April 19, 2013
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Data Science is definitely a buzz word these days. Part of
the fascination with data is the hope/promise of new products that will
make our lives better. Yet, we've seen very little in the way of new
products. What's holding back a wave? It's hard, really hard to build data
products at scale. I'll walk through the things that burned us (in
academia, industry, and government) as we built data products.
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Dr. DJ Patil is currently a Data Science in Residence at Greylock Partners.
He has held a variety of roles in Academia, Industry, and
Government. These include, the Chief Scientist, Chief Security Officer and
Head of Analytics and Data Product Teams at the LinkedIn Corporation.
Additionally he has held a number of roles at Skype, PayPal, and eBay. He
is known for co-coining the term Data Scientist. In 2011 he was ranked in
Forbes Data Scientist list as #2 behind Larry Page. In 2012 he along with
other notable "Gen Fluxers" were featured on the cover of Fast Company.
As a member of the faculty at the University of Maryland, his research
focused on nonlinear dynamcis and chaos theory and he helped start a major
research initiative on numerical weather prediction. As an AAAS Science &
Technology Policy Fellow for the Department of Defense, Dr. Patil directed
new efforts to leverage social network analysis and the melding of
computational and social sciences to anticipate emerging threats to the US.
He has also co-chaired a major review of US efforts to prevent bioweapons
proliferation in Central Asia and co-founded the Iraqi Virtual Science
Library (IVSL).
More details can be found on his LinkedIn profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dpatil and can be followed on twitter @dpatil.
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