Data Science Beginnings

In this episode we talk to two of our graduating MSDS students, Patricia and Ben, about tracking fitness workouts and researching neural network training strategies as part of their MSDS Practicum projects, and dealing with imposter syndrome and other challenges when moving to SF and completing a one-year intensive data science program.

Hosts: Cody Carroll and Robert Clements
Guests: Patricia Ornelas Jauregui and Ben Chen
Editing: Cody Carroll
Mixing: Joshua Lehrer

In this episode we talk to two of our graduating MSDS students, Jessica and Xin, about identifying tweets about California Black Bears and monitoring "AirBnBs" for birds in California that are used for bird migration as part of their MSDS Practicum projects, and getting through an intensive one-year MS program while parenting kids.

Special thanks to Joshua Lehrer for editing this episode.

In this episode we talk to two of our graduating MSDS students, Rushil and Guru, about their experiences in the MSDS program, living in the SF Bay Area, exploring the city in autonomous cars, and the best Indian food in SF.

In this episode we talk to two of our graduating MSDS students, Chenxi and Kyle, about their experiences in the MSDS program, their Practicums in Agriculture and Risk Intelligence, moving to SF, and building an app for summarizing restaurant opinions in the Entrepreneurship course.

Cody Carroll is an Assistant Professor in the MSDS program at USF, and talks about his background, his teaching, and his time-warping research. He's also a DJ and the songs you hear in this episode were chosen by him, and they are (in this order): Sunseeker by Zuma Dionys; Epic Resurrection by Space Motion; and This Time Baby by Jackie Moore.

Paul Kim talks about his journey studying Film, TV, Media Studies, and Data Science, and how these topics will forever be interrelated.

Learn more about the MSDS program at the Data Institute here:

MSDS: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/programs/graduate/data-science

MSDS: https://twitter.com/usfca_msds

Data Institute: https://twitter.com/DataInstituteSF

Data Institute: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-data-institute-university-of-san-francisco/

Recent MSDS graduate Kooha Kwon talks about his favorite part of the MSDS program at the University of San Francisco as well as his job search process, successes, and failures since graduating.

Zan Armstrong talks about how she became a data viz professional, what makes a good visualization, and surveys the job landscape for those looking to get into the field.

Learn more about the MSDS program at the Data Institute here:

MSDS: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/programs/graduate/data-science

MSDS: https://twitter.com/usfca_msds

Data Institute: https://twitter.com/DataInstituteSF

Data Institute: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-data-institute-university-of-san-francisco/

Burak Himmetoglu describes his approach to screening data scientist candidates for his team, and talks about the different skillsets he looks for, what he can live without, and how to deal with an unprofessional interviewer.

Learn more about the MSDS program at the Data Institute here:

MSDS: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/programs/graduate/data-science

MSDS: https://twitter.com/usfca_msds

Data Institute: https://twitter.com/DataInstituteSF

Data Institute: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-data-institute-university-of-san-francisco/

Shan Wang talks about why she chose to join the Faculty at USF, and the approach she takes to teaching graduate students in the MSDS program at USF.

Learn more about the MSDS program at the Data Institute here:

MSDS: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/programs/graduate/data-science

MSDS: https://twitter.com/usfca_msds

Data Institute: https://twitter.com/DataInstituteSF

Data Institute: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-data-institute-university-of-san-francisco/

We talk to Chayan Chakrabarti about his data science journey, his role at Atlassian as a Machine Learning Scientist, how he keeps up with the non-stop changing field of AI, and his thoughts on what makes a "good" data science practitioner.

Learn more about the MSDS program at the Data Institute here:

MSDS: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/programs/graduate/data-science

MSDS: https://twitter.com/usfca_msds

Data Institute: https://twitter.com/DataInstituteSF

Data Institute: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-data-institute-university-of-san-francisco/