Kate Houg comes on the podcast to talk about how she has ventured into the field of Data Science from Mechanical Engineering. Along the way she has utilized informational interviews to shape the career that she's building today. Kate talks about key turning points and moments along her journey that has guided her into choosing this fruitful career.

Kate touches on the benefits she garnered from mentoring and volunteering with Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science, and Technology (WISEST) to give back and help her learning journey. She also touches on the usefulness and how to approach getting started with networking and informational interviews.

Finally, Kate discusses the exciting journey she took into discovering her passion with data and how communicating information effectively motivated her throughout her Master's to go into data science.