Social Science to Data Science Series Guest Writer The following blog post is written by Cara Davies. Nyx and Cara connected on the “Professor is Out” Facebook group. This is her LinkedIn if you’d like to get in touch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caramdavies **If you are interested in guest writing on my blog, please reach out!** I knew, even when starting…

It is Black History Month! This is an important time for our country to consciously reflect on our history with Black History including incredible (often unacknowledged) contributions but also deep traumas that have helped build our collective American History. These contributions and traumas also exist within data science and analytics! …

QD3E stands for Qué Díficil Es El Español, the name of this subseries, and what my partner tells me whenever trying to explain something to me about Spanish. Stressed syllables in Spanish always confused me. There were the words that we learned, and we learned how to pronounce them, but…

I’m a part of two groups on Facebook related to Academia: one called “The Professor is In”, which is is all about what it’s like being immersed in academia. The second called “The Professor is Out” is all about why people are leaving academia. (Another called High Impact PhD memes…

There is a weird story that goes around in America that Spainards speak Spanish the way they do because there once was a king who had a lisp. Ask anyone from Spain about this story and I’m betting the majority of people there have no idea what you’re talking about…

My parents started a small online royalty photography company with a business partner back in the late 1990s. It was overall a fairly successful business before the saturated market of free images and premium paid images available online. …

In addition to analytics, I’m an avid Spanish learner. Like many monolingual Americans I grew up trying to learn another language starting in high school. I took French, but growing up in California, I heard Spanish a lot. For parents out there: there’s a key age for language-learning [1]; For everyone else, don’t give up. When I went to college, I learned that the best time to…

Quick note: my hope for this particular topic is to start a series of guest written stories of data scientists with untraditional backgrounds. If this is you, and you’d like to guest write, please get in touch! The most common question I get from college students who are looking to…

Many of us have participated in or heard our friends, coworkers, or family members as we’ve gathered for the holidays or caught up over Zoom talk about their desire to have more flexibility in their jobs to be with loved ones, the stresses of working full-time and having kids at…