Data Science Learning Club
I’m working on the last of my recording and editing for “Episode 0” of the new Becoming A Data Scientist Podcast, which I’m planning to launch tomorrow! I’ve already recorded the interviews for...
View ArticleBecoming A Data Scientist Podcast Episode 0: Me!
Here is the first episode of the Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast, which is also available in video form! (sorry for the poor video quality!) In this episode, I talk a little about the podcast, I talk...
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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...
View ArticlePodcast Available on Stitcher
The Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast is now available via Stitcher! Subscribe in the app, or listen online: If you have another podcast app, you can subscribe by entering the RSS feed link:...
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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...
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Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 03: Shlomo Argamon
Note: The video is the interview only. The audio podcast has the intro, interview, and data science learning club activity explanation. In Episode 3 of the Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast, we meet...
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Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 04: Sherman Distin
In Episode 4 of the Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast, we meet Sherman Distin, owner of analytics consulting firm QueryBridge. We discuss his primarily self-taught path to learning the data science...
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Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 05: Clare Corthell
Renee Teate interviews Clare Corthell, founding partner of summer.ai (now Luminant Data) and creator of the Open Source Data Science Masters curriculum, about becoming a data scientist. Podcast Audio...
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Data Science Learning Club Update
For anyone that hasn’t yet joined the Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Data Science Learning Club, I thought I’d write up a summary of what we’ve been doing! The first activity involved setting up a...
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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...
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Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 07: Enda Ridge
Data 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 11: Stephanie Rivera
Stephanie Rivera has worked in machine learning and data science for academic research (at University of Tennessee), for the government (Department of Defense), for a large consulting firm (Booz...
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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...
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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...
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Boosting (in Machine Learning) as a Metaphor for Diverse Teams
Note – I wrote this article in one sitting, and definitely want to come back later to improve it and add references, but I don’t want to hold it up from being published just because I’m hungry for...
View ArticleBecoming a Data Scientist Survey
I am collecting information about my “audiences” so I can improve my websites, podcast, and also formulate a plan for a Patreon campaign to generate funds for getting help and to free myself up to...
View ArticlePodcast Episodes 0 to 3
It’s been brought to my attention that iTunes only shows the last 10 episodes of the Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast. If you haven’t seen/heard episodes 0-3, you can watch the interviews on the...
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“Becoming a Data Scientist” Survey Results 1: Jobs & Education
Here is the 1st batch of results from the Becoming a Data Scientist Survey. Because of the sample size and unscientific casual nature of this survey, we can’t make any broad generalizations about the...
View ArticlePyData DC 2016 Talk
I just got back from PydataDC, where I learned a lot, had fun, and met a bunch of awesome people! I’ll definitely write about it more later, but I wanted to share my slides here since I told the...
View ArticleBecoming a Data Scientist Podcast Special Episode
The hosts of Becoming a Data Scientist podcast, Partially Derivative podcast, Adversarial Learning podcast, and some other awesome data people that do elections forecasting for their day jobs joined...
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T-Shirt Design Contest!
I’ve decided that I want to have Becoming a Data Scientist t-shirts to sell and to give out to podcast guests and contest winners, but I am not a graphic designer, so I need some help! So I’m going to...
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Support Becoming a Data Scientist!
I want to hire some people to help me update my websites more frequently, do the maintenance stuff, and to help edit the podcast so I can produce episodes more frequently. I outlined my whole plan here...
View ArticlePodcast Special Episode 2 – The Future of AI with Dr. Ed Felten
In this audio-only Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Special Episode, I interview Dr. Ed Felten, Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer, about the Future of Artificial Intelligence (from The White...
View ArticleI’m hiring!
I need a part-time remote assistant to help keep my websites up to date, among other things! Thanks to my generous Patreon supporters, I can hire someone to help me out 8-20 hours per month, paying...
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Vote for a T-Shirt design!
Which of these awesome designs would you like on your future Becoming a Data Scientist T-Shirt? You all will narrow it down to 3, then I’ll pick the final winner to be printed! For the ones that aren’t...
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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...
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T-Shirt Contest Finalists
I still haven’t heard from one of the 3 finalists, but I wanted to go ahead and post the first two, and I’ll update here with the final one later. These finalists win a data science book and a t-shirt,...
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Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 15: David Meza
David Meza is Chief Knowledge Architect at NASA, and talks to Renee in this episode about his educational background, his early work at NASA, and examples of his work with multidisciplinary teams. He...
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T-Shirts!!
The Becoming a Data Scientist tees are ready to sell! I ordered a couple myself before posting them for sale, to make sure the quality was good. They came out great!! And if you order from Teespring...
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Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 16: Randy Olson
Renee interviews Randal S. Olson, Senior Data Scientist in the Institute for Biomedial Informatics at UPenn, about his path to becoming a data scientist, his interesting data science blog posts, and...
View ArticleBias in Machine Learning Flipboard Magazine
Quick note for those of you who follow me on Flipboard. I added another one, seeded with links from my Challenge to Data Scientists article, on Bias in Machine Learning. Enjoy!
View ArticleSummer of Data Science 2017
Since Memorial Day in the U.S. is the unofficial start of the summer season, I figured today would be a good time to launch the SUMMER OF DATA SCIENCE 2017!!! The Summer of Data Science is a commitment...
View ArticleIntroductory Machine Learning Terminology with Food
I was just pondering some ways to discuss machine learning terminology in a way that would be accessible to beginners, and figured I’d share my semi-thought-out ideas here. I’m sure this has been done...
View Article2 Quick Announcements
1. Sorry for the issues loading images and with logins on this site. I’ve had problems ever since I had bluehost set me up with HTTPS certificates, and apparently those certificates have expired or...
View ArticleMore silliness
Back before I had so many followers, and it was less stressful to put goofy stuff “in the wild”, I wrote data science parody lyrics to “Summer of ’69” and “For the Love of Money”. Well, a while ago,...
View ArticleHi #DemystifyDS Attendees!
I’m assuming that some people who see my talk at Demystifying Data Science conference will be dropping by here, so I wanted to put up a quick post summarizing some of the resources I have made...
View ArticlePodcast Listens Analysis
I’ve been telling everyone that I’d do something “data fun” when I hit 20K Twitter followers, so I posted an analysis of my podcast listeners! I used python and pandas in a Jupyter notebook for the...
View ArticleCan a Machine Be Racist or Sexist?
I presented a talk with this title at the Applied Machine Learning Conference at Tom Tom Fest in Charlottesville (which I also helped plan) last Thursday April 12, 2018. My interest in this topic...
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#CraftyDataViz Contest!
A couple weeks ago, I started following the @everytract twitter bot account (by @fitnr), which is tweeting an aerial image of every census tract in America: Enjoying this bot account...
View ArticleSummer of Data Science 2018 #SoDS18 Launch Day!
Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer in the U.S., so in the past, we’ve also used it as the start date for the Summer of Data Science! The main goal of the Summer of Data Science is to learn...
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#CraftyDataViz Winners
About a month ago, on a whim, I posted the #CraftyDataViz contest, hoping for some beautiful and wacky homemade visualizations, and you all sure came through! The entries were gorgeous and the judging...
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Summer of Data Science Goal-Setting
The purpose of the Summer of Data Science is to learn a specific topic or complete a project or read a book or finish a course so you can check something off of your long data science “to learn” list...
View ArticleAPRA Data Analytics Symposium 2018
Hi, #APRADAS2018 Attendees! I plan to come back and add more info here in the future, but for now, here is a PDF version of my slides: My Journey from Advancement Data Analyst to Data Scientist
View ArticleTom Tom Fest Applied Machine Learning Conference 2019
The 2019 iteration of Tom Tom Fest (named after Thomas Jefferson) starts in under a month, and the Applied Machine Learning Conference (AMLC) is just over a month away, on April 11, in Charlottesville,...
View ArticleRVATech Summit Slides
I promised the audience at the RVATech Summit yesterday that I’d post the updated slides for my “Can a Machine be Racist or Sexist?” talk, so here they are! Here is the link to the previous post, which...
View ArticleBecoming a Data Scientist Episode 17: Andrew Therriault
In the first episode of the Becoming a Data Scientist podcast recorded in front of a live audience, Renee interviews Andrew Therriault – formerly the Director of Data Science for the Democratic...
View ArticleValley TechCon Slides
This week, I gave a talk at Valley TechCon in Harrisonburg, VA (where I live), which is a conference that features tech businesses and practitioners from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and is in...
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