Data Science Happy Hour 22 | 05MAR2021
March 7th, 2021
1 hr 29 mins 1 sec
Season 10
About this Episode
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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