973-584-9100 bgl@bardess.com Home What We Do Solutions Innovations Blog Events Contact About Us We're Hiring Find Your Future With Bardess Why Choose Bardess? Transform your career and ride the wave of Big Data analytics and machine learning by joining three-time award winning Global Partner of the Year, Bardess Group, Ltd. As an elite team of consultants and data scientists, we extend boundaries to drive value through design, best-in-class partnerships, speed, and time to value. For more than 20 years, leaders of Fortune 500 and innovative midsized businesses have trusted Bardess to rapidly solve complex business and data analytics challenges. We are passionate about data and through our LEAP methodology, our teams uncover insights hidden deep within data, enabling our clients to deploy innovative data solutions quickly and realize results rapidly. At Bardess, it is our people that make us special and we offer growth opportunities and continuous development to improve your skills. We not only give you the security of a full-time position with benefits, but also the flexibility of working on a variety of projects, in a variety of industries, with the latest technologies including Qlik, Cloudera, DataRobot, Trifacta, Microsoft Azure, AWS and more. We also strive to help you have the right work life balance and include the ability to work from home offices where applicable. Most importantly, you’ll work with respected, award-winning leaders in the fields of Data Management, Data Analytics, Data Science and Management Consulting at Bardess, experts with unmatched energy and drive. We’re looking for experts in diagnosing the underlying causes of operational and data quality issues, and providing the right solutions for our customers using best-in-class technologies. Join us today and grow your future in big data and data analytics. Our Top Partners: Our Open Positions: Part Time Data Scientist Hourly/Contractor Sales Manager Customer Success Specialist Solutions Architect Experienced Qlik Developer / Data Architect Qlik Sense Developers / Data Architects Qlik Sense Developers / Data Architects – Remote Full Stack Developer Marketing Manager We seek people who do what it takes to get the job done Our consultants are based at virtual offices and usually work at client sites to maximize interaction with the client teams. We are committed to maximize the use of internet collaboration technologies to limit travel while maintaining a real-time connection to engagements. Who We Hire Bardess hires highly competent and experienced professionals with functional expertise in Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, IT, Business Process Design, Finance, Services, Business Planning, among others. Our consultants are self-motivated, results-oriented people who are diplomatic problem solvers. They are part of a team that takes ownership of client issues and successfully guides them to resolution. What We Seek We seek people who will “do what it takes” to get the job done on-time and within budget and are known to be “doers”. We look for experienced Consultants or Business Professionals with over 10 years experience in selected industries or functional areas. In addition to proficiency in business functions, we require strong time management and organizational skills as well as the ability to multi-task. Moreover, strong communications (verbal and written) and decision-making skills are the keys to becoming part of the Bardess team. How To Apply Please email your resume, cover letter and the opportunity of interest to: recruiting@bardess.com. Recommended Online Courses, Books and Resources Leadership John Maxwell: The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader, Developing the Leader Within You, The 21 Irefutable Laws of Leadership Stephen Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Technical Books and Online Courses We recommend these online course sources in addition to what is listed below: udemy, EdX. Visit Technology and big data online publications like The Week, The Data Center Journal and VentureBeat. Use Kaggle to compete in data science competitions and access useful datasets for tackling ML problems. Other Resources Beginner Python Basics Good basic intro to Python Beginner/Intermediate Analytics at Work – Tom Davenport Business side of Analytics – for MBA or MS BI programs Competing on Analytics – Tom Davenport Business side of Analytics – for MBA or MS BI programs Algorithms to Live By – The Computer Science of Human Decisions – Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths Machine Learning (Coursera) – Andrew Ng Free Great for understanding a wide range of machine learning theory Skip the programming assignments, as they use Octave, which nobody really uses nowadays Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced Swirl – interactive R courses Good way to quickly pick up R Runs inside Rstudio Intermediate Data Science for Business – Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett For those who need to understand data science as well as those who want to develop data-analytic thinking. Data Science for Business is not a book of algorithms. Instead it presents a set of fundamental principles for extracting useful knowledge from data. These principles are the basis of many algorithms for data mining and underlie methods for approaching business problems data-analytically Intermediate / Advanced Python for Data Analysis – Wes McKinney This is a book, but there are pdf copies available This Python guide is more specific to data science Covers the libraries pandas (data transformation), numpy (numeric computation), and matplotlib (visualization) which are vital in any data scientist’s Python tooLever Brothersox Includes a lot of recipes for pandas, which are very helpful, as some chained operations are not easy to figure out from the documentation alone. Assumes some knowledge of Python The author, Wes McKinney, developed the pandas library, as well as some new libraries like Apache Arrow. Advanced The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python More advanced guide to Python, but a really good one Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers A great way of learning Bayesian inference using Python and the library PyMC3 https://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/ TIPS TO HELP YOU GROW AND BECOME MORE SKILLED IN YOUR FIELD OF EXPERTISE There are several tips and pieces of advice we recommend to help you continue to grow and become more skilled and experienced in your field of expertise and in your skillsets to stay on top of your core knowledge and skill-base. Here is a list of tips we recommend: Take a personal interest in something you may want to pursue and advocate – some data analysis, predictive analytics, etc Work on your own project take your learning and results and start talking to people to prove your value in that area. Pursue an idea to gain attention from either your boss or your company – be a self-starter and be self-taught. Attend Code camps –find a way to get involved in actual projects and real data Attend educational programming and retreats which have a learning environment set up for you to download tools Take online courses, like I just mentioned Download a source to get free tools. Depending upon where you are in your schooling, try to find internships. Read as much as you can to educate yourself – Read current events, textbooks, academic papers, and other educational materials, current industry reports. Become involved with data analytics, data science or the development communities where you share posts and material. Be a part of their discussions. You can learn a lot from your peers. Find a mentor who you can learn from. Stick to scripts, pre-processed data and automated tasks and lean heavily on frameworks or databases. Visit technology and big data online publications. 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