Show Notes:

• (2:10) Jon reflects on his academic career and explained why he pursued an advanced degree in Biology. He also went over his post-doc fellowship at Cancer Research UK.


• (4:45) Jon discusses the zebra-fish project he worked on during his post-doc research at King’s College London.


• (8:13) Jon talks about the developmental biology work he did at the embryology lab at University College London.


• (10:00) Jon explains why biological data are noisy.


• (10:58) Jon explains his motivation behind his transition from academia to industry.


• (15:04) Jon’s advice for Ph.D. students and post-doc researchers who want to make a similar transition.


• (16:20) Jon talks about his freelance data science project to build a recommendation systems aiming at women struggling with Type 2 diabetes.


• (21:32) Jon talks about his experience running his data science consultancy business.


• (25:32) Jon’s advice to improve data storytelling skill.


• (26:59) Jon presents a high-level overview of his company Pivigo.


• (31:11) Jon talks about his role as Pivigo’s Head of Data Science.


• (34:50) Jon goes over the industries that are Pivigo’s clients.


• (36:30) Jon goes over the skills that data science talents need to develop.


• (37:53) Jon’s advice to transition from individual contributor to manager.


• (41:51) Jon mentions the talks he gave recently at O’Reilly Strata Data Conference in London.


• (46:48) Closing segment.

His contact info:

• Twitter


• LinkedIn


• GitHub

His recommended resources:

• Datacamp


• David Robinson's "Understanding empirical Bayes estimation"


• "R for Data Science" by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund


• #rstats

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