Rotem Fogel
VP Data Engineering and Analytics at Seeking Alpha
What is your credo/ your "WHY" regarding data?
I love data.
What are your fields of interest?
Information retrieval, distributed systems.
What are your favorite tools?
Pandas, spark, mllib, various nosql.
Data is the new oil because...
Without data, you're just guessing.
What is your data dream?
That every person in my company will think of data before starting a new feature.
If you had a chance to collect data on anything you wanted, what would it be?
Snow depth reports from ski sites around the world.
What is the one tip for beginners and one tip for professionals?
Don't be afraid to make mistakes.
Learn a new thing every day.
What is the project you are most proud of?
Built a near realtime OLAP system from scratch.
What is next on your "To Learn" list?
Neural networks
What do you want to do when you grow up? :)
I am already grown up 😊
Who's answers to these questions would you like to see and why?
Data veterans from different disciplines, so I would know which direction the data movement is going.
