February 1, 2021

Buffalo State Data Talk

Episode 7: Marketing analytics, making magic happen with mathematics, an interview with John O’Hara from the Walt Disney Company

 

Episode 7 features John O’Hara, a marketing Analytics & Insights Manager at The Walt Disney Company. John talks about how his background in applied mathematics (including a Master’s degree from the Professional Applied and Computational Mathematics program at Buffalo State College) launched his career as an analyst and lead to his current job at Disney. Tune in to hear about his advice for building your network, what it is like working for the Walt Disney Company and how he handles projects involving large data sets. 

0:00 Introduction

1:01 John’s position at Disney

3:56 Working in a data science team

5:15 Personal development 

6:33 Networking and LinkedIn

8:59 John’s favorite part of his job

10:04 Challenges of working in data science

11:28 John’s career journey

13:57 Potential careers for students with a math degree, like John

15:58 Skills needed to be a data scientist

18:43 Advice for new data scientists

21:33 Outro 

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