Dr. Chris Dowsett, Ph.D.

Vice President of Analytics and Data Science at hims & hers

Expertise: Analytics, marketing and data science

Education: University of Southern Queensland; UC Irvine

Chris Dowsett is the vice president of analytics and data science at hims & hers. Formerly, he served as the director of data science and consumer insights at Spotify. Dr. Dowsett has been working in data science analytics and decision science since 2004 and previously held positions at Instagram, Intuit and Spaceship, among many others. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Queensland where he researched how to improve the effectiveness of data use in business decision making. Dr. Dowsett also h

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Updated on April 15, 2025

Improve Your Customer Experience. Hire a Decision Scientist.

Our decision science team delivered an automated experience for customers and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in staff time. Here’s how.

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Customer Success
Sales
Chris Dowsett Chris Dowsett
Updated on February 03, 2023

What Is MongoDB?

MongoDB is an open-source, document-oriented NoSQL database designed to handle large amounts of data and provide fast performance.

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Data Science
Big Data
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Chris Dowsett Chris Dowsett
Updated on April 15, 2025

What Is a Stablecoin?

Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies that have their value tied to another currency, commodity or financial algorithm. Here’s how they work, their types, why they matter, their use cases, benefits, challenges and future outlook.

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Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
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Chris Dowsett Chris Dowsett
Updated on March 15, 2023

What Is a Data Pipeline?

A data pipeline is a series of data processing steps. A data pipeline might move a data set from one data storage location to another data storage location.

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Pipedrive
Big Data
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Chris Dowsett Chris Dowsett
Updated on July 20, 2023

What Is a Data Lake?

A data lake is a digital storage area where businesses hold structured and unstructured data including social media data, log files, emails, images and videos.

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Data Science
Big Data
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Chris Dowsett Chris Dowsett
Updated on February 28, 2024

What Is Business Intelligence?

Business intelligence (BI) provides insights that guide business decisions and business monitoring while taking advantage of growing volumes of data stored by organizations.

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Corporate Innovation
Data Science
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Chris Dowsett Chris Dowsett
Updated on January 08, 2025

What Is a Database?

A database is a systematic way of storing information so data can be accessed, analyzed, transformed, updated and moved with efficiency.

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SQLite
Data Science
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Chris Dowsett Chris Dowsett
Updated on June 18, 2025

Data Science vs. Decision Science: What’s the Difference?

Data scientists and decision scientists do very different, though equally important, work. Here’s how to tell the difference.

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Data Science
Chris Dowsett Chris Dowsett
Updated on June 18, 2025

Selection Effect: What It Is and How to Avoid It

Selection effect is a bias that occurs when a sample or method favors a specific subset of a population, leading to results that don’t accurately represent the whole. If unchecked, selection effect can lead to false positives and bad investments.

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Big Data
Marketing
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