Tag: data scientist

Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 14: Jasmine Dumas


In this first episode of “Season 2” of Becoming a Data Scientist podcast, we meet Jasmine Dumas, a new data scientist who tells us about going from biomedical engineering into a data science project experience and then finding her first job as a data scientist.


Podcast Audio Links:
Link to podcast Episode 14 audio
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Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 13: Debbie Berebichez


In this interview, we meet physicist Debbie Berebichez, who you might recognize from her TEDx talks, her appearances in Discovery Channel’s Outrageous Acts of Science and other TV shows! Debbie grew up in Mexico City and was discouraged by her family and teachers from studying science, but later went on to become the first Mexican woman to get a PhD in physics from Stanford, and is now Chief Data Scientist at Metis Data Science Bootcamp in New York.

Podcast Audio Links:
Link to podcast Episode 13 audio
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Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 12: Data Science Learning Club Members


Verena, David, Kerry, and Anthony are members of the Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Data Science Learning Club! They appear in the order in which they joined the club, and each discuss their starting points before joining, their participation in the activities, and advice they have for new data science learners.

Podcast Audio Links:
Link to podcast Episode 12 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

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.

Podcast Audio Links:
Link to podcast Episode 9 audio
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Podcast on Stitcher
Podcast on iTunes

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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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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
Podcast’s RSS feed for podcast subscription apps
(I will distribute the feed out to iTunes and Pocket Cast ASAP. It’s available on Stitcher now!)

Becoming A Data Scientist Podcast Episode 01: Will Kurt

Note: The video is the interview only. The audio podcast has the intro, interview, and data science learning club activity explanation.

In this episode we meet Will Kurt, who talks about his path from English & Literature and Library & Information Science degrees to becoming the Lead Data Scientist at KISSmetrics. He also tells us about his probability blog, Count Bayesie, and I introduce Data Science Learning Club Activity 1. Will has some great advice for people learning data science!

Podcast Audio Links:
Link to podcast Episode 1 audio
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