This week on Would You Data Scientist, Wendy is joined all the way from Portland Oregon by guest Danielle Nelson, senior data scientist at Rented. Find out why a piece of climbing equipment might be the best bit of tech ever, and how you can get into data science even if your degree is in 13th century French literature.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• If you want proof that you can retrain from any career into data science, Danielle studied linguistics and French literature, then had a career as a marine biologist, listening to the echo location of whales and catching frogs.
• Rented provide dynamic pricing for property managers for vacation rentals. They essentially use data to generate the optimal price for any given day to ensure the property is booked.
• Danielle's rule is that if she can't explain how a model works to her husband, then she won't use it.
• The more you can make the work you're doing capable of being integrated with the larger system of where you're working, the better.
• A good hiring manager would love to see your impact in your application, what was the outcome of your work. Did you save a company X amount of money or did you help save this endangered species. Tell them the consequence, and they'll ask how you did it.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

‘I saved critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whales by listening to them'

‘There's lots of different flavours of data science'

‘The way you word your transferrable skills is important'

EPISODE RESOURCES

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellevnelson/

https://www.rented.com/art/

If you're interested in working for Rented or have any questions for Danielle then e-mail [email protected]

ABOUT THE GUEST

Danielle Nelson is a skilled statistical data scientist with ample visualization and modeling experience, an eye for aesthetics, and a strong quantitative background. Passionate about data equity, awesome data visualizations, weaving stories from data points and analyses, and using data to make a better world.

VALUABLE RESOURCES

linkedin.com/in/ethicalrecruiter

qwerkrecruitment.com

@qwerkrec on socials

ABOUT THE HOST

Wendy Gannon started Qwerk Recruitment in the middle of the Covid Pandemic to disrupt the recruitment sector with ETHICAL data recruitment and treat everyone with love, dignity and respect. Avid Music photographer of 15 years.

PODCAST DESCRIPTION

Interviewing successful Data Scientists to find out about their journey into Data Science and any struggles they've faced to help next generation Data Scientists from all walks of life to access their dream career.

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