At O’Reilly’s “Making Data Work” seminar earlier this summer, I teamed up with a few other folks (data diva Hilary Mason, R extraordinaire Joe Adler, and visualization guru Ben Fry) to talk about data. What follows is a blog-ified and amended version of that talk, originally entitled “Secrets of Successful Data Scientists.” 1. Choose The Right-Sized Tool Or, as I like to say, you don’t need a cha