Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 11: Stephanie Rivera


Stephanie Rivera has worked in machine learning and data science for academic research (at University of Tennessee), for the government (Department of Defense), for a large consulting firm (Booz Allen), and now for a startup (MyStrength). In the interview, she discusses her career path, her experiences with mentorship, and her role in authoring The Field Guide to Data Science and the Explore Data Science online course.

Podcast Audio Links:
Link to podcast Episode 11 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 coming soon]
Data Science Learning Club Meet & Greet

Links to topics mentioned by Stephanie in the interview:

machine learning

Odyssey of the Mind

Graph Theory

Total Domination in Graph Theory (pdf)

Some research publications by Stephanie:
Machines Watch you Surf the Web
Total domination dot-stable graphs

The University of Tennessee Knoxville Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning (CISML)

Reinforcement Learning

Connect Four (game)

UTK Distributed Intelligence Laboratory

MATLAB

UTK Infant Perception Action Laboratory

“teach a man to fish” proverb

pattern recognition

Booz Allen Data Science

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Explore Data Science (now via Metis)

Code School

Field Guide to Data Science

MyStrength (@mystrengthbh on twitter)

DataKind

Stephanie on Twitter @dataginjaninja