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On this week's episode of Would You Data Scientist, Wendy is joined by guest Shuai Yuan, Director of Data Science at FreeWheel. Shuai manages a data science team working on optimization problems from the side of the buyer. Join the discussion on why you should get into data science, how you can get into it, and what different avenues the field offers. As always there will be chat on ethics and what you can do to impress recruiters.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Shuai's career got going while studying a PHD in Information Retrieval, studying sponsored searches, display advertising, and real time bidding for search engines.
- Shuai believes there are three avenues within data science that can cover a lot of roles. They are machinery researcher, machinery engineer, and data analyst.
- FreeWheel recently hired someone without any full-time work experience in data science. She was able to demonstrate her skills by showing a personal work portfolio she had built in her own time. Even though the applicant hadn't had any actual experience, she had ticked that box off her own back.
- There is a war online for the user's attention, websites are bombarding people with ads to try and get noticed. The problem with this is that the user's attention is finite and they get tired of seeing large numbers of ads. The best way to be seen is to realise that it can be about quality, rather than quantity.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Python is such a lovely langue and enables so many things'
‘Everyone is trying to fight for the user's attention, the user's attention is a limited resource'
‘We need to encourage people from different backgrounds to apply so we have more choice'
EPISODE RESOURCES
www.freewheel.com
ABOUT THE GUEST
Shuai Yuan is the Director of Data Science at FreeWheel. You can connect with him on LinkedIn using the link below.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuanshuai
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.
This show was brought to you by Progressive Media
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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On this week's episode of Would You Data Scientist, Wendy is joined by guest Shuai Yuan, Director of Data Science at FreeWheel. Shuai manages a data science team working on optimization problems from the side of the buyer. Join the discussion on why you should get into data science, how you can get into it, and what different avenues the field offers. As always there will be chat on ethics and what you can do to impress recruiters.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Shuai's career got going while studying a PHD in Information Retrieval, studying sponsored searches, display advertising, and real time bidding for search engines.
- Shuai believes there are three avenues within data science that can cover a lot of roles. They are machinery researcher, machinery engineer, and data analyst.
- FreeWheel recently hired someone without any full-time work experience in data science. She was able to demonstrate her skills by showing a personal work portfolio she had built in her own time. Even though the applicant hadn't had any actual experience, she had ticked that box off her own back.
- There is a war online for the user's attention, websites are bombarding people with ads to try and get noticed. The problem with this is that the user's attention is finite and they get tired of seeing large numbers of ads. The best way to be seen is to realise that it can be about quality, rather than quantity.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Python is such a lovely langue and enables so many things'
‘Everyone is trying to fight for the user's attention, the user's attention is a limited resource'
‘We need to encourage people from different backgrounds to apply so we have more choice'
EPISODE RESOURCES
www.freewheel.com
ABOUT THE GUEST
Shuai Yuan is the Director of Data Science at FreeWheel. You can connect with him on LinkedIn using the link below.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuanshuai
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.
This show was brought to you by Progressive Media
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.