‘Living my identity takes courage. It is the same courage necessary to start a new business’
Albert Lee, the founding partner at Summit Consulting, describes his career journey – from mathematics and economics at university to the birth of data science and building a company from scratch.
‘I was inspired by the power that numerical data have to tell stories and promote policy change’
Claire Morton is an undergraduate student at Stanford University. In this Q&A, Claire explains how a high school job in a cell biology lab led to college studies in mathematical and computational science and environmental justice.
‘Once I started to see what was possible with data science, there was no going back’
Chanuki Seresinhe is head of data science at Zoopla and Hometrack. This is her career story so far – from researching beautiful places to helping web users buy, sell and rent property spaces.
‘For me, data science is about bridging the gap between business requirements and the data that businesses have’
Jasmine Holdsworth ‘fell in love’ with data science while employed as a data analyst at Stack Overflow. Now working as a data scientist at Expedia Group, she explains how inspiring mentors, R-Ladies meetups, and a commitment to learning (and teaching) helped shape her career path.
‘I always thought someone like me couldn’t work in data, let alone data science’
Sami Rahman, head of data engineering and data platform at Penguin Random House, parlayed a psychology degree into a data science career – inspired by a talk on machine learning’s application to human behaviour.
‘Data science challenges you to keep learning – there’ll always be new advances in the field’
Tamanna Haque, lead data scientist at Jaguar Land Rover, shares her route into data science: from pursuing a maths degree at Manchester to analysing vehicle data for a major automotive manufacturer.