Podcasts by So you want to be a data scientist?

A look into the world and future plans of Data Professor from 2022-09-01T11:06:07

Chanin Nantasenamat is behind the very successful YouTube channel Data Professor. He is an actual professor with a background in working in academia in the field of bioinformati...

#22 - Being a data science consultant at Amazon with Naz Levent from 2021-02-22T20:33:37

Amazon has many services and one of the biggest products they have is AWS. It stands for Amazon Web Services and is a cloud services platform. As part of their cloud services platform, Amazon al...

#21 - Working as a data science while still studying with Khuyen Tran from 2021-02-06T21:58:58

There are many ways to get a data science job and on this episode we hear a very interesting one! 

Khuyen Tran is a student and a data scientist who got her first job before even gra...

#20 - A look into Women in Data with Sadie St. Lawrence from 2021-01-23T17:32:18

Communities all over the world are on the rise. People want to connect with others that they have shared values with. People in these communities help their fellow members with hard times, follo...

#19 - Helping the government work better with AI with Nicole Janeway Bills from 2021-01-08T17:22:33

Yes, government agencies use AI too! When you think about it, with the gigantic amount of data they have, no wonder they need machine learning solutions to deal with their problems. And if you'r...

#18 - An unconventional path to founding an AI Start-up with Mikiko Bazeley from 2021-01-02T09:35:16

This week on the show I have Mikiko Bazeley. She is currently busy co-founding Sidewalk.ai, an AI based solution for residential real-estate. 

Her path to founding a company hasn't b...

#17 - Starting a business on data with Susan Walsh, The Classification Guru from 2020-12-20T19:53:34

Data Scientists are in demand and that's why becoming a data scientist is also in demand. Though many times what people have in mind when they think of becoming a data scientist is working at a ...

#16 - Being a data scientist in a multinational tech consultancy with Rossy Nhung Nguyen from 2020-12-06T12:44:01

A consultant’s life is an exciting one. You get to experience many different industries, domains and technologies. It tends to be high-paced and at times stressful but if you like the kind of wo...

#15 - Finding remote work and life of a machine learning engineer with Ceren İyim from 2020-11-26T13:23:24

As a person who looked for jobs in the remote workspace before the pandemic, I can say, it is not easy. Fully remote companies tend to be, simply, super cool and have great culture. That’s why t...

#14 - Economics to Data Science with Jayeeta Putatunda from 2020-10-23T18:50:14

This week I welcome Jayeeta Putatunda on the show! Jayeeta is a senior data scientist specialising in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning solutions at Indellient Inc. in New York. S...

#13 - From ecology research to data science with Meg Thomason from 2020-09-27T16:08:49

One of the biggest worries before changing to data science is inexperience. It's natural to think that what you're doing right now is not relevant and that it's too late for you to switch to dat...

#12 - Life as a PhD student working working on AI with Selene Báez Santamaría from 2020-08-30T10:05:37

Doing a PhD is a great way to dive very deeply into a topic you're passionate about. When it comes to AI there is no shortage of interesting topics. If you don't want to have the limitation of a...

#11 - Data Science in Research with Sakshi Mishra from 2020-07-31T13:03:54

Curious about how data science and machine learning contributes to renewable energy research? In this episode, Sakshi Mishra from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) joins me to talk...

#10 - An unexpected way of using data science and life at Adobe with Shivali Goel from 2020-07-17T12:44:51

Sometimes it’s hard to imagine a vast variety of jobs where data science skills and machine learning are used. So, we end up defaulting to a data scientist position. Shivali Goel’s job is an exc...

#9 - Start-up life and being a free data scientist with Yaakov Bressler from 2020-06-22T21:38:27

Yaakov is a data scientist and theatre producer. He has experience working in start-ups and more recently as a free data scientist ready to make trouble. He has worked on some very interesting p...

#8 - Data science from two perspectives with Nikola Valešová and Petr Míchal from 2020-06-09T21:50:11

Nikola and Petr both work for the same company in Prague. DataSentics, where they work, has a wide selection of projects and a very interesting portfolio. As part of their jobs as data scientist...

#7 - Freelancing and starting your own company with Katia Stambolieva from 2020-05-27T19:02:13

On this week's episode, I welcome Katia Stambolieva, proud co-founder of the space tech company NinaSpace and a freelance data scientist. In NinaSpace, Katia and the team work on detecting wildf...

#6 - Becoming an ML engineer and work life at Twitter with Jigyasa Grover from 2020-05-11T10:17:44

In this week's episode, Jigyasa Grover of Twitter joins me to talk about her career and machine learning engineering. 

She shares her journey of becoming a machine learning engineer ...

#5 - Whys and hows of a product analyst career with Kasia Rachuta from 2020-04-29T09:18:55

In this episode, we look into one of the many data-related titles: product analyst. Kasia Rachuta is a product analyst at Square, a financial services company in San Francisco. She also held dat...

#4 - A senior data scientist's life with Samantha Zeitlin from 2020-04-14T18:07:06

Samantha joins me to talk about her career in the fourth episode of So you want to be a data scientist. She is a senior data scientist at Sentry.io in San Francisco. We talk about her journey fr...

#3 - Being a technical writer at a tech firm with Melissa Barr from 2020-04-01T21:04:01

Melissa is a technical writer at Uber working specifically for the machine learning team. In this episode we get to learn more about technical writing and what this job entails. Melissa talks ab...

#2 - Discussing big bank life with Víctor García Cazorla from 2020-03-19T13:12:13

Data science can take many shapes and forms. It is important to get insights from people working in different industries, different sized companies and different roles. In this episode, Víctor G...

#1 - Talking about data science in consulting with Madli Kivisik from 2020-03-03T13:34:54

Madli is a former colleague of mine who is currently working for a new exciting start-up called Pactum. She is an entrepreneur at heart and a badass data scientist with a background in social sc...