Operational Data Science

If you’ve been listening to the market research or analyst companies, you may have heard that the leading companies are investing in Big Data. But are you? If your day is anything like mine, you probably have more pressing business decisions to make than whether to invest in more…

Analytics infrastructure of tomorrow

If you happen to be interested in the technologies that enable advanced business analytics, like I am, the last year has been an interesting one. A lot is happening, on all levels of the tech stack from raw infrastructure to cloud platforms and to functional…

How do you land a job at a start-up?

Earlier, I wrote about some of the ways working at a start-up is different from companies who’re already in stable business. If you read that and thought it sounds really bad, that’s okay. These things aren’t for everybody. But what if you’re still interested…

Should you work at a start-up?

As Finland is gaining more growth start-ups, more people are also getting exposed to the idea that these companies might be reasonable employers. Of course they are — growth companies create all new jobs, and without them, the number of jobs would in fact decrease. Most…

What makes data science “operational”?

Here’s a quick list of things that people quickly notice when their data science moves out of lab into operations:

Data is not fixed

Happy New Year!

As the year is coming to an end, it’s time to say thanks and reflect back on what’s been a good reboot for Metrify. If you’ve followed us longer, you know that over the year we widened our scope from games analytics to other industries and our team changed shape as part of the founding team left to…