Women in Data Science
Summary: Hear from women leaders across the data science profession, as they share their advice, career highlights, and lessons learned along the way. This podcast is brought to you by the Stanford Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (ICME) and the Stanford School of Engineering. Generous support for this podcast and other Women in Data Science initiatives has been provided by Intuit, Microsoft, SAP, Walmart Labs, and Western Digital.
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- Artist: Professor Margot Gerritsen
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Podcasts:
Chiara Sabatti, professor of biomedical data science and of statistics at Stanford University, discusses trends in data science in genetics.
Elena Grewal, Airbnb’s head of data science, discovered the key to making successful career jumps: “Often it’s more about words being different than about skills being different”
Sonu Durgia, Walmart Labs group product manager, mines the store’s massive backlog of digital interactions to engineer a better e-commerce experience.
The executive director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) discusses how data science is being used to combat injustices in Central America and the Middle East.
Finding new ways to collect data – and a willingness to share it – are the hallmarks of a career in academia for two data scientists at Stanford.
From manufacturing to product development, Western Digital’s chief data officer discusses how data science plays an important role in the storage industry.
Dean Jennifer Widom has seen computer science--and data science-- evolve from a narrow, specialized field into an interdisciplinary field that touches on broad swaths of society and is capable of solving important global problems.
The VP of data science and analytics at Netflix discusses the future of storytelling.
Jennifer Chayes, a technical fellow and managing director at Microsoft Research believes data scientists should build algorithms with Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics – or FATE.
