Analytics vs. Data Science vs. ML Research: Economist Sonali Syngal Shares Her View

Formulatedby's Senior Content Advisor, Q McCallum, met up with Sonali Syngal to explore these questions.  Sonali is currently a data scientist at MasterCard and is about to join the team at Expedia.  She came to data science from the rather uncommon entry point of economics. In this episode we see that her career path has given her key insights on how to join this field and what are the differences between the various roles therein.(Some listeners may recognize Sonali's voice from a previous episode: she spoke at Data Science Salon in December 2020, where she also joined us for our Coffee Chat.  You can check out that episode to learn more about Sonali's take on ML/AI in the world of fintech.)

Sonali mentioned Christopher Olah's blog, which lives at: https://colah.github.io  (Christopher was working at Google when Sonali found his blog, though he has since moved to OpenAI.)Sonali and Q are both fans of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel.  It offers clear, relatable explanations of linear algebra and neural networks: https://youtu.be/aircAruvnKkThis is DeepLizard’s deep learning playlist that Sonali mentioned: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbbT5o_s2xq7LwI2y8_QtvuXZedL6tQU