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
Podcast’s RSS feed for podcast subscription apps
Podcast on Stitcher
Podcast on iTunes
Podcast Video Playlist:
Youtube playlist of interview videos
More about the Data Science Learning Club:
Data Science Learning Club Welcome Message
Learning Club Activity 6: k-Means Clustering [coming soon]
Data Science Learning Club Meet & Greet
Bioinformatics
Evolutionary Biology
Economics Game Theory
Machine Learning
Biostatistics
Information Science
Systems Biology
Systems Modeling
Comparative Genomics
Nordstrom Innovation Lab (old innovation lab links inactive – appears to be the Nordstrom Technology People Lab now)
Jim Vallandingham (d3)
Crushed It! Landing a Data Science Job
University of Michigan Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
R
dplyr
ggvis
ggvis interactive controls
ggplot2
R Markdown
Hadley Wickham
Elements of Statistical Learning book
BI Tech CP303 (course Erin taught at University of Washington – use arrow keys to go through slides)
GitHub repository for class
regression
classification – logistic regression, trees
market basket analysis
clustering
UW Business Intelligence Certification
