Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 06: Erin Shellman
In this episode, Renee interviews Bioinformatics PhD and Data Scientist Erin Shellman about her path to becoming a data scientist, including jobs at Nordstrom Innovation Lab and zymergen. Erin discusses school, job interviews, teaching, and eventually getting to do data science within her field of scientific expertise.
Podcast Audio Links:
Link to podcast Episode 6 audio
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Data Science Learning Club Update
For anyone that hasn’t yet joined the Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Data Science Learning Club, I thought I’d write up a summary of what we’ve been doing….
Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 05: Clare Corthell
Renee Teate interviews Clare Corthell, founding partner of summer.ai and creator of the Open Source Data Science Masters curriculum, about becoming a data scientist.
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Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 04: Sherman Distin
In Episode 4 of the Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast, we meet Sherman Distin, owner of analytics consulting firm QueryBridge. We discuss his primarily self-taught path to learning the data science techniques he uses to find business insights in marketing data, and he also tells us what he thinks is the most important trait he looks for in data scientists.
Podcast Audio Links:
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Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 03: Shlomo Argamon
In Episode 3 of the Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast, we meet Shlomo Argamon, who is the founding director of the Master of Data Science program at Illinois Institute of Technology. He talks to us about his path to data science, including research in robotic vision and natural language processing, we discuss the traits of a good data science student, and he gives some advice for those of us learning data science.
Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 02: Safia Abdalla
Note: The video is the interview only. The audio podcast has the intro, interview, and data science learning club activity explanation.
In Episode 2 of the Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast, we meet Safia Abdalla, who started programming and even exploring machine learning and natural language processing as a teenager, and is now a student at Northwestern University, a conference speaker and trainer, co-organizer of PyLadies Chicago, and a contributor to Project Jupyter.
Podcast Audio Links:
Link to podcast Episode 2 audio
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(I will distribute the feed out to iTunes and Pocket Cast ASAP. It’s available on Stitcher now!)