Michael Li

Maxime Agostini Contributor Share on X Maxime Agostini is the co-founder and CEO of Sarus, a privacy company supported by Y Combinator that lets organizations leverage confidential data for analytics and machine learning. Michael Li Contributor Share on X Tianhui Michael Li is the founder of The Data Incubator, an eight-week fellowship to help Ph.D.s and postdocs transition from academia into industry. It was acquired by Pragmatic Institute. Previously, he headed monetization data science at Foursquare and has worked at Google, Andreessen Horowitz, J.P. Morgan, and D.E. Shaw. More posts by this contributor Implement differential privacy to power up data sharing and cooperation How to recruit data scientists without paying top dollar

Tianhui Michael Li is the founder of The Data Incubator, an eight-week fellowship to help Ph.D.s and postdocs transition from academia into industry. It was acquired by Pragmatic Institute. Previously, he headed monetization data science at Foursquare and has worked at Google, Andreessen Horowitz, J.P. Morgan, and D.E. Shaw.

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Implement differential privacy to power up data sharing and cooperation

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What’s different about hiring data scientists in 2020?

It’s 2020 and the world has changed remarkably, including in how companies screen data science candidates.

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The perils of polling in a Brexit and Donald Trump world

In the digital era of big data, polling is ironically more fraught. The reasons offer a microcosm of both the promise and perils of Big Data.