You Ask The Right Questions

This episode of #DataFemme is the second sponsored by the wonderful Plotly. Hear from Laura Gray, People and Operations at Plotly, about supporting new parents at work and defining success in a way that fits you.

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Danielle Oberdier
If It Makes Sense to Mawmaw

This episode of #DataFemme features Whitney Skoensen, Deputy Chief Information Officer for the City of New Orleans and Melissa Bridges, Performance and Innovation Coordinator at the City of Little Rock. Together we discuss how city open data can be used and how to inspire data-driven governments.

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Danielle Oberdier
When Data is Your Canvas

In this episode of #DataFemme, Emmanuelle Gouillart, Developer at Plotly, discusses the Python community, how image processing and data visualization work in tandem and best practices for contributing to open source.

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Danielle Oberdier
Something About Humanity

My mom Rita Mitra, a cybersecurity professor at University of Texas San Antonio, and I recorded this episode in memorial of my grandmother, Dr. Sunanda Mitra, who passed away on August 9th, 2020. If you are interested in learning more about cybersecurity and its intersection with data science, this episode is for you.

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Danielle Oberdier
Don't Let Labels Hold You Back

This episode of #DataFemme features Jennifer Cooper, Vice President of Strategy Analytics - Auto Risk at JP Morgan Chase. Listen to hear her journey into data science, her passion for live conference events and the ways in which learning new programming skills can foster a fruitful career.

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Danielle Oberdier
Math Against All Odds

On this week's episode of #DataFemme, I had the pleasure of speaking with Jenine K. Harris about her book, "Statistics With R: Solving Problems Using Real-World Data", and its underlying concepts of reproducibility and representation for marginalized groups.

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Danielle Oberdier
No More Tables - All Of The Seats

The second episode of #DataFemme Season Two focuses on Pride Month and how to increase Queer representation within the data science field. How do we codify gender? Should we refurbish our models with faulty data or start anew? We don’t have all the answers, but can still promise you a lively, thought-provoking discussion that will leave you wanting more.

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Danielle Oberdier
#DataFemme Season Two Kick-Off!

So it’s finally here - the release of #DataFemme Season Two! This kick-off episode features Ayodele Odubela and Alise Ramirez, talented data scientists and insightful entrepreneurs. We set the tone for this season, which will focus on amplifying the voices of marginalized groups in data science, especially those from the Black community. By doing so, we CAN and WILL obliterate racism from our industry, our models and in time, our world.

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Danielle Oberdier
Writing for the Future

The Season One Finale of #DataFemme is here to rock your world as Quinn McHenry, Senior Developer at Small Planet (and fellow cat lover), talks about his first encounters with machine learning and how data science can improve our collective health, specifically mental health.

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Danielle Oberdier
Data We Have Heard on Hire

In this episode of #DataFemme, VP and Research Director for Advanced Analytics at TDWI (Transforming Data With Intelligence) Fern Halper discusses her research on the gender-pay gap as well as how to empower women in the data science field to fight for their careers.

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Danielle Oberdier
All We R We Are

In this episode of #DataFemme, Northwestern PhD student and fellow R-Lady Katherine Simeon and I discuss the impact of community in data science, virtual events and her creation of the Twitter account We Are R Ladies.

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Danielle Oberdier
Truth in Times of Trouble

Last week, you heard from Peggy Tsai, Vice President of Data Solutions at BigID. This week's episode of #DataFemme features Heather Federman, Big ID's Vice President of Policy and Privacy as she explains both her role in data protection and the major policy trends affecting pandemic data.

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Danielle Oberdier
Cats, Class and Corona

In this episode of #DataFemme, I had the great pleasure of talking with two good friends who also happen to be graduate students in sociology at Ohio State University.

Eva Warren and Jacob Kepes' studies shed light on some very real discrepancies between the data we have and the data we need, further amplified by the crisis we are currently undergoing.

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Danielle Oberdier