<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Gigaom]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://gigaom.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Stacey Higginbotham]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[http://search.gigaom.com/author/staceyh/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[DJ Patil has joined the White House to wrangle data issues]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>DJ Patil, who has held of a number of jobs as a data scientist, most notably at LinkedIn, has joined the White House as a data scientist-in-residence with a focus on helping handle health care data, according to John Podesta, Counselor to the President, on a conference call held Thursday. Podesta said Patil had joined the White House this week during a call related to a White house briefing on how the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/big_data_privacy_report_5.1.14_final_print.pdf">government should handle data</a> and consumer privacy.</p>
<p>After leaving LinkedIn, Patil took on a few jobs, including as data scientist in residence at Greylock, a venture capital firm. His most recent position &#8212; and current one, according to his LinkedIn profile &#8212; was as vice president of product at RelateIQ, a customer relationship management startup that was <a href="https://gigaom.com/2014/07/11/old-crm-meet-new-crm-salesforce-com-to-buy-relateiq/">acquired by Salesforce.com in July</a>.</p>
<p>Patil is one of the biggest figures in the data science movement, often crediting for coining the term data scientist. In 2012, Patil co-authored the <a href="https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century/"><em>Harvard Business Review</em> article</a> calling data scientist the sexiest job of the 21st century, helping to spark a hiring frenzy of people with an understanding of data analysis, systems and business concerns.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve reached out to Patil for comment, and will update the story as we learn more. We&#8217;ll discuss how another government body, the Federal Trade Commission, plans to deal with the issue of data privacy at <a href="https://events.gigaom.com/structuredata-2015/">Structure Data</a> (March 18-19 in New York) when FTC Commissioner Julie Brill chats on stage with Gigaom legal expert Jeff Roberts.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a video of Patil, as well as Cloudera&#8217;s Jeff Hammerbacher, talking big data and data science at Structure Data 2013.</p>
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