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YCombinator's 2014 data science start-ups (mlwave.com)
12 points by ajnp 3482 days ago | 7 comments


4 points by larrydag 3481 days ago | link

Job Skills shows no mention of R. I find that surprising. I believe there are still a lot of Statisticians/Applied Math folks still untapped in the startup community.

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5 points by achompas 3480 days ago | link

The article lists smaller startups. Data scientists at these shops need to contribute to production systems, which means Python and C/C++ more than R or Matlab.

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4 points by izyda 3480 days ago | link

I think that the lack of mention of R just points out that most applied data science oriented startups are for the large part run by computer scientists / software engineers rather than statisticians or applied mathematicians.

R is heavily fragmented and requires at least some willingness to read papers, identify the right package for the right task, and in many cases interpret non-standardized output.

Python on the other hand has 2 consolidated modules - numpy and scipy - that for most basic data science tasks are good enough and easy enough for someone not trained in statistics to understand.

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3 points by nofreehunch 3481 days ago | link

Indeed, it is a bit weird. Note: This was no exhaustive search for job skills, I think that deserves a single post, with well... proper data and fancy graphs (preferably made in R).

I am sure there are new data science startups looking for R-magicians. No doubt some of the best use it, as seen in this slideshow by Xavier Conort (10 R packages to win Kaggle competitions): http://fr.slideshare.net/DataRobot/final-10-r-xc-36610234

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3 points by larrydag 3481 days ago | link

On another point I understand the startup community is dominated by hackers with the standard programming tool box like C, Python, Java, et al. So I believe there is still opportunity.

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2 points by nofreehunch 3482 days ago | link

Hey, can an admin edit the title to remove the all-caps?

Then I'll make it so titles on my blog are not str_to_upper, but transformed with CSS.

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2 points by rohit 3481 days ago | link

Done. Thanks.

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