Category Archives: Business
Leaving Academics
For academics, mid-winter is a reflective time of year. It was about this time, 3 years ago that I wrote an article reflecting on my own move to industry. Perhaps it’s because this is the time when academic jobs are … Continue reading
Posted in Business, data science, Family
Tagged Academics, Babies, Baby, Industry, Leaving, mathematics, Mental Health, PhD, Quitting
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Are you masculine enough to be a trusted leader?
I’ve been a woman mathematician in Industry for almost 5 years. I have Malcolm Gladwell’s requisite 10,000 hours to be an expert. Throughout my experience, I have struggled to gain the trust of my more technical colleagues. It’s not a … Continue reading
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Science March Draws Controversy.
There is something about airing dirty laundry that makes everyone uncomfortable. And we scientists have some dirty laundry… And we are struggling to interface with the world about our feelings. Continue reading
Posted in Business, Communicating Math, Media, Social Mathematicians
Tagged #altfacts, mathematics, Science March, Uber, WhitePrivilege
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Data Science Triple Threats
Everyone likes a good list. There are some articles working around which talk about why Data Science doesn’t add business value. As a data scientist who love people, I wanted to add my voice to conversation. Here are three things that … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Communicating Math
Tagged Communication, corporate, data science, datascience, Mathematicians, Triple Threat
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Pinpoint the moment when…
Graphs and data are always there for us, especially if we want to look back in time and find the exact moment that something changed. Today I’m presenting a bit of a poem of images about time series. Here’s the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Communicating Math, Dancing and Performance, Nature
Tagged mathematics, Movies, Onion, Pinpoint, Time Series
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Variations of Data Science
I spent some time last month at a SIAM conference. Since I graduated and joined the Industry two years ago, I hadn’t been to a conference. The attendees were mostly academics. But there were a few Data Scientists coming from industry as well. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, data science, Data Scientist, Industry, mathematics, Netflix, Target, Tech, Tech Companies, Uber, Walmart
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