Chris Parmer's guest appearances

Chris Parmer

The PolicyViz Podcast

Towards Data Science

The Business of Data Podcast

Sarah Williams

Cal Newport

Ben Goertzel

Robert Kosara

Scott Murray

Mike Morrison

William Davis

Rune Madsen

Jeremy Howard

Roland Memisevic

Max Welling

Ayanna Howard

Mike Tung

Manuel Lima

Margaret Mitchell

OwlTail

It’s easy to think of data scientists as “people who explore and model data”. Bur in reality, the job description is much more flexible: your job as a data scientist is to solve problems that people actually have with data. You’ll notice that I wrote “problems that people actually have” rather than “build models”. It’s relatively rare that the problems people have actually need to be solved using a predictive model. Instead, a good visualization or interactive chart is almost always the first step of the problem-solving process, and can often be the last as well. And you know who understands visualization strategy really, really well? Plotly, that’s who. Plotly is a company that builds a ton of great open-source visualization, exploration and data infrastructure tools (and some proprietary commercial ones, too). Today, their tooling is being used by over 50 million people worldwide, and they’ve developed a number of tools and libraries that are now industry standard. So you can imagine how excited I was to speak with Plotly co-founder and Chief Product Officer Chris Parmer. Chris had some great insights to share about data science and analytics tooling, including the future direction he sees the space moving in. But as his job title suggests, he’s also focused on another key characteristic that all great data scientists develop early on: product instinct (AKA: “knowing what to build next”).

It’s easy to think of data scientists as “people who explore and model data”. Bur in reality, the job description is much more flexible: your job as a data scientist is to solve problems that people actually have with data. You’ll notice that I wrote “problems that people actually have” rather than “build models”. It’s relatively rare that the problems people have actually need to be solved using a predictive model. Instead, a good visualization or interactive chart is almost always the first step of the problem-solving process, and can often be the last as well. And you know who understands visualization strategy really, really well? <a href="https://plot.ly/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Plotly</a>, that’s who. Plotly is a company that builds a ton of <a href="https://plot.ly/graphing-libraries/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">great open-source visualization, exploration and data infrastructure tools</a> (and some proprietary commercial ones, too). Today, their tooling is being used by over 50 million people worldwide, and they’ve developed a number of tools and libraries that are now industry standard. So you can imagine how excited I was to speak with Plotly co-founder and Chief Product Officer Chris Parmer. Chris had some great insights to share about data science and analytics tooling, including the future direction he sees the space moving in. But as his job title suggests, he’s also focused on another key characteristic that all great data scientists develop early on: product instinct (AKA: “knowing what to build next”).

25. Chris Parmer - Plotly founder on what data science is, and where it's going 

In this week’s episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I speak to Chris Parmer, Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Plotly, the online data visualization and analytics firm. Chris and I talk about Plotly’s tool, their business model, open source data... The post Episode #33: Chris Parmer from Plotly appeared first on PolicyViz.

In this week’s episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I speak to Chris Parmer, Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Plotly, the online data visualization and analytics firm. Chris and I talk about Plotly’s tool, their business model, open source data... The post <a href="https://policyviz.com/podcast/chris-parmer-from-plotly/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode #33: Chris Parmer from Plotly</a> appeared first on <a href="https://policyviz.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PolicyViz</a>.

Episode #33: Chris Parmer from Plotly