Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 10 – Trey Causey
Trey Causey is a data scientist with a background in psychology and sociology who, like Renee, is from Virginia. He has worked as a data scientist at a range of companies from zulily to ChefSteps, and has also developed some interesting sports analytics projects, including the New York Times 4th Down bot. Trey also has advice for people wanting to start a career in data science.
Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 09 – Justin Kiggins
Justin Kiggins, who calls himself a “full stack neuroscientist” talks to Renee about how he started as a musician majoring in music therapy, switched to mechanical engineering, and eventually made his way via biomedical engineering and neuroscience to study auditory perception and the brains of communicating birds.
Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 08 – Sebastian Raschka
Renee interviews computational biologist, author, data scientist, and Michigan State PhD candidate Sebastian Raschka about how he became a data scientist, his current research, and about his book Python Machine Learning. After the interview, Sebastian explains k-fold cross-validation for the Data Science Learning Club model evaluation activity.
Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 07 – Enda Ridge
https://www.becomingadatascientist.com/podcast-player/980/becoming-a-data-scientist-podcast-episode-07-enda-ridge.mp3Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 44:36 | Recorded on February 28, 2016Data Scientist, Author, and manager of data science teams Enda Ridge talks to us about data governance, data provenance, reproducible analysis, work pipelines and products, and people, among other topics covered in his book “Guerrilla Analytics – A practical Approach to Working with Data: The Savvy Manager’s Guide”. Blog post with show notes and...
Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 06 – Erin Shellman
https://www.becomingadatascientist.com/podcast-player/964/becoming-a-data-scientist-podcast-episode-06-erin-shellman.mp3Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 46:39 | Recorded on January 27, 2016In 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. Blog post with show notes and...