Hilary Mason is the Chief Scientist at bitly, where she finds sense in vast data sets. Her work involves both pure research and product development. She’s also a co-founder of HackNY (hackny.org), a non-profit organization that connects talented student hackers from around the world with startups in NYC.

Hilary recently started the data science blog Dataists (dataists.com) and is a member of hacker collective NYC Resistor.

She has discovered two new species, loves to bake cookies, and asks way too many questions.