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A few months ago last.fm started looking for a data griot – in their words, a griot “must … have the ability to extemporize on current events, chance incidents and the passing scene. His wit can be devastating and his understanding of history formidable.”

I'm working as their computational scientist (aka, "data pornographer") working on internal tools and analytics as well as writing a public-facing blog. Our goal is to use our historical data to more accurately estimate and reduce pick-up times.

market demand for data scientists and people capable of working with "big data" took a huge leap over the last year.