Don’t believe everything you read [in Forbes]

Data Ninja Neil Kodner and I had a discussion yesterday about the article on LinkedIn’s data science group in this week’s Forbes magazine.

Deep Nishar and the LinkedIn data science team are doing some fascinating research and there are some great nuggets in the article but Neil and I were both surprised by the following quote:

Today 100 data researchers among LinkedIn’s 700 employees look at everything from data center behavior, search and mobile communications, as well as analysis of personal data.

To summarize our reaction: NFW!

You could say we were skeptical (or, if true, extremely envious) that data researchers made up 15% of LinkedIn’s workforce. Thankfully given the wonders of modern communication we were able to check the information with members of the data science team at LinkedIn.

Neil’s question:

And the immediate response from DJ Patil:

So seems you can’t believe everything you read.

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