Emily Robinson & Jacqueline Nolis – How To Jump Into Data Science from Any Background? #76
Develomentor
English - July 23, 2020 05:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsTechnology Business Careers technology careers leadership software engineering machine learning cto Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest are Emily Robinson and Jacqueline Nolis, authors of the book 'Build Your Career in Data Science'.
Emily Robinson works at Warby Parker as a senior data scientist on a centralized team tackling some of the company’s biggest projects. Previously, she was at DataCamp, where she built and ran their experimentation analytics system, and at Etsy, where she worked with their search team to design, implement, and analyze experiments. I regularly give talks on A/B testing, R programming, and data science career advice at conferences and meetups (see all talks here) (www.hookedondata.org/about)
Jacqueline Nolis is a data scientist in Seattle with over a decade of experience helping business solve problems with data. Today she works at Brightloom as a principal data scientist where she builds tools to help companies use data to improve customer experience.
Jacqueline has aided companies and led teams at places from DSW and Union Bank to Microsoft and Airbnb. She bas spent years consulting both independently and with consulting firms.
Jacqueline earned a PhD in industrial engineering from Arizona State University. Her academic research covered optimizing road networks for electric vehicles.
Jacqueline coauthored the book Build Your Career in Data Science with the excellent Emily Robinson. This book is a great resource for people wanting to become data scientists or grow in the role. (www.jnolis.com)
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Additional Resources
Emily learned data science from Metis bootcamp – find out more about Metis here
A/B Testing in the Wild – talk by Emily https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF-ryGgLOgQ
Josh Willis, former director of data engineering at slack, on Develomentor – click here for full episode and show notes
Connect with Emily Robinson
LinkedIn
Twitter
Hookedondata.org
Datascicareer.com (promo for book)
Connect with Jacqueline Nolis
LinkedIn
Twitter
Jnollis.com
bestbook.cool (promo for book)