#135 Emily Robinson making sense of data science for us

Emily took us from her custom studies to her Ph.D. studies, her DataScience Bootcamp, and her first job at Etsy. We classified DataScience and (finally) made sense of those weird titles. We talked about how working in the open, creating her community and writing opened doors for her. Finally, we spoke about the book she just wrote with Jacqueline Nolis.

Here are the links from the show:

• Emily's Twitter https://www.twitter.com/robinson_es
• Her book "Build a Career in Data Science" http://datascicareer.com
• The podcast accompanying the book https://podcast.bestbook.cool
• 40% off the book: mtpdata20
• Emily's Blog http://hookedondata.org
• Blog post about titles at Lyft: https://medium.com/@chamandy/whats-in-a-name-ce42f419d16c
• New York HackR Meetup where Emily first talked https://www.meetup.com/nyhackr
• The recording of her A/B Testing @Etsy Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF-ryGgLOgQ
• Will Larson's upcoming book about Staff Engineering: https://staffeng.com/book

Credits

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• Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.
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Chapters

• 1:55 Where would you place the start of your tech or developer's journey?
• 4:13 Emily created her own major in college
• 12:23 Getting into DataScience
• 19:24 What is the difference between DataScientist, DataAnalyst, etc.
• 24:58 Getting into Etsy
• 30:57 Working in public
• 36:10 How to write a book?
• 43:57 Advice for novice book writers