In this episode we have a chat with Dr Charis Harley, who is a Data Scientist at Synthesis Software Technologies where she works on projects that require the analysis of data with the aim of gaining new insights to support increased innovation within an organisation. She has a PHD in Computational and Applied Mathematics, with over eleven years of lecturing at the University of the Witwatersrand, experience at the University of Oxford and Texas A&M University and over 30 published articles.