Data Science Happy Hour 22 | 05MAR2021
The Data Science Happy Hours keep getting happier! Check it out and don't forget to register for future office hours: http://bit.ly/adsoh Register for Sunday Sessions here: http://bit.ly/comet-ml-oh If you want to interact with me multiple times a week, join Data Science Dream Job for 70% off: http://dsdj.co/artists70 Watch the episode on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx-pFwty92wJoWzoO7WlfaM7iYB8qjm Chat transcript from the session: http://theartistsofdatascience.fireside.fm/articles/oh22-chat-transcript HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SESSION [00:02:37] What probability distributions do you need to know as a data scientist? [00:06:07] What type of course should I take as a beginner in data science? [00:12:05] How much of software development and data science is bullshit [00:15:49] The myth of job security [00:20:34] How to build an intuition for data science [00:23:17] Thom Ives with some great wisdom [00:27:52] Book recommendation on thinking and learning [00:37:24] Build scrappy solutions [00:40:23] Use statistics to move KPIs [00:43:50] How to parse the text from an HTML blob [00:49:12] Thom changes his name to “What Mikiko said” [00:50:16] We talk about our biggest fails as data and analytics professionals [01:07:39] Juico’s webscraping question [01:11:43] The Data Community Content Creator’s Awards Special Guests: Carlos Mercado, Greg Coquillo, Mikiko Bazeley, and Vin Vashishta.
