Overview

Our guest today is Samantha Van Der Merwe, Data Science Technical Lead at Kantar and machine learning content creator. Samantha has a Bachelor's in Engineering and a Master's in Data Science, and helps teams successfully scale and deploy data science and analytics solutions.

In this episode, we chat about the tech stack needed to deploy machine learning models, her journey to becoming a tech lead, and how we can ensure our models have the business impact we are looking for.

About Samantha Van Der Merwe

As a Data Science Technical Lead, Samantha helps teams to successfully scale and deploy Data Science and analytics solutions. Samantha also builds Machine Learning solutions and provides career support to women who are aspiring Data Scientists through online social platforms.

Background:

BEng Industrial and Systems Engineering

MSc Statistical Science

Experience:

5 years in Advisory and Analytics role, 5 years in Data

Science

Hobbies:

Digital content creator samzee_codes

Fun facts:

Loves travel, anime and sometimes I cosplay as Shuri from

Black Panther

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-van-der-merwe-49aa03a6/

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@samzee_codes

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samzee_codes/

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