Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast Episode 16: Randy Olson

Renee interviews Randal S. Olson, Senior Data Scientist in the Institute for Biomedial Informatics at UPenn, about his path to becoming a data scientist, his interesting data science blog posts, and his work with non-data-scientists and students.

Podcast Audio Links:Link to podcast Episode 16 audioPodcast’s RSS feed for podcast subscription appsPodcast on StitcherPodcast on iTunes

Podcast Video Playlist:Youtube playlist of interview videos

More about the Data Science Learning Club:Data Science Learning Club Welcome MessageData Science Learning Club Activity 16 – Genetic AlgorithmsData Science Learning Club Meet & GreetNow sponsored by DataCamp!

Mentioned in the episode:

bytecode

Dr. Kenneth Stanley at the University of Central Florida

evolutionary algorithm

Michigan State University Artificial Intelligence

BEACON NSF Science and Technology Center at MSU

Randal S. Olson publications

Randy’s blog

Data Is Beautiful Reddit

traveling salesman problem

Google Maps API

Moneyball (book)

Data Science Handbook (book)

Weka

scikit-learn

version control

Randy on:TwitterLinkedINgithubPatreon

Becoming a Data Scientist T-Shirts!

Thanks to DataCamp for sponsoring this episode!

DataCamp discount link in Data Science Learning Club forums (only visible to logged-in users)