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Data Humans

Libby Heeren

Business

Frequency: 1 episode/71d. Total Eps: 10

Libby is a self-professed Data Human on a mission to speak candidly about the day-to-day work of data professionals and tear down the veil of mystery that hangs over the world of data jobs. Find her at datahumans.club

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🇨🇦 Canada - careers
13/03/2026
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http://datahumans.club
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Meet Mark Rieke: career transition from mechanical engineering, craving more technical work, and how we all belong in data

Season 1 · Episode 10

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 • Duration 38:03

Meet Mark Rieke, a data scientist. We talk about how he transitioned from mechanical engineering to customer experience analytics, and from that to Bayesian-flavored data science, as well as our thoughts on advanced degrees, the reality of data jobs vs the online hype, and how we all belong in the data world.

Find more from Libby at datahumans.club

Stuff mentioned in the episode -

Stan: https://mc-stan.org/

StanCon: https://mc-stan.org/events/stancon2024/

NormConf: https://www.youtube.com/@normconf/playlists

Mark on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markjrieke/

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Meet Madison Ostermann: from music major to computer science, making tough choices, and working for NASA

Season 1 · Episode 9

Thursday, August 1, 2024 • Duration 01:00:49

Meet Madison Ostermann, a data scientist at NASA. You'll hear us talk about her non-linear path from music major to computer science major, what a data job in government looks like for her, and the pivotal decisions she's made throughout her education and career journey so far.

Find more from Libby at datahumans.club

Stuff mentioned in the episode -

The Business of Authority Podcast Episode: https://thebusinessofauthority.com/episodes/1c25a3df

Madison on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/madisonostermann/

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Meet Norma Padrón: data entrepreneurship after academia, the quantitative side of economics, and finding communities for success

Season 1 · Episode 8

Thursday, July 25, 2024 • Duration 42:27

Meet Norma Padrón, a health economist and entrepreneur. We talk about what her work looks like, her journey from mathematics to economics and public health, how finding communities along the way helped her succeed, and more.

Find more from Libby at datahumans.club

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American Economic Association: https://www.aeaweb.org/

Norma on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/normapadron/

Norma's website: https://www.normapadron.com/

Women in ML and DS: https://wimlds.org/

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Meet Camila Saez: data science in the science world, the importance of connectedness, and experimenting to figure out what you want

Season 1 · Episode 7

Friday, February 9, 2024 • Duration 58:11

Meet Camila Saez, an R & D Scientist at Dow. We talk about how she got to data science from science-science (chemical engineering), the interesting process of interviewing for scientific research roles, what problems she gets to work on day to day in the field of material science, and more.

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Camila on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/csaezcab/

Camila's lightning talk at Posit Conf 2023: https://youtu.be/PhNnwfEZRek?si=etqtoRzaWNdN1wee

Custom color palette projects that served as inspiration and learning:

https://github.com/ciannabp/inauguration

https://github.com/karthik/wesanderson

Society of Women Engineers: https://swe.org/

Latinas in STEM: https://www.latinasinstem.com/

Fundamentals of Data Visualization by ClausWilke: https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/

R for Data Science byWickham and Grolemund: https://r4ds.had.co.nz/

Meet Kelly Hopkins: consulting, the computer science side of data science, and the power of data communities

Season 1 · Episode 6

Friday, May 12, 2023 • Duration 37:52

Meet Kelly Hopkins, a data consultant. We talk about what consultancy looks like for her, our mutual and totally unnecessary feelings of inadequacy from different sides of the data science aisle, why making data friends is more powerful than whatever extra certification you're looking to get next, and much more.

Find more at datahumans.club

Stuff mentioned in the episode -

Black Tides: https://blacktidesdata.com/

Black in Data Week 2023 even (event has passed) by Black Tides: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-in-data-week-2023-tickets-516193347197

Robotic Process Automation (RPA): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_process_automation
-- Automation Anywhere: https://www.automationanywhere.com/
-- UI Path: https://www.uipath.com/
-- Blue Prism: https://www.blueprism.com/

-- R-Ladies: https://www.rladies.org/
-- R-Ladies Philly: https://www.meetup.com/rladies-philly
-- SLC R-users group: https://www.meetup.com/slc-rug/

Kelly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyhopkins-data/
-- Kelly's consulting business, Launchpad Analytics, on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/launchpad-analytics/

Meet Sloan Wheeldon: data degrees, live coding interviews vs. take-home projects, and toxicity on LinkedIn

Season 1 · Episode 5

Tuesday, March 21, 2023 • Duration 01:00:37

Meet Sloan Wheeldon, a data scientist. We talk about her journey to data science, our differing experiences in data degree programs, how we feel about certain types of data science interviews, and more.

Find more at datahumans.club

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Sloan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sloan-wheeldon/

Music: Savour The Moment by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

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Meet Richard DeWald: a blended career of patient care and data, chasing independence in the way we work, and the birth of the internet

Season 1 · Episode 4

Thursday, January 12, 2023 • Duration 52:09

Meet Richard DeWald, registered nurse, senior system admin, and hospice data analyst. We talk about his journey to data via a combination of nursing and a love of computers through the 70s, 80s, 90s and beyond. His is a story of blending patient care and data work throughout a successful and varied career.

Find more at datahumans.club

Stuff mentioned in the episode -

R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham: https://r4ds.had.co.nz/index.html

Richard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-dewald-7703904/

Music: Savour The Moment by Shane Ivers -
https://www.silvermansound.com

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Meet Kaitlin Bustos: consulting, the bootcamp experience, and how data science isn't one thing

Season 1 · Episode 3

Friday, December 9, 2022 • Duration 31:16

Meet Kaitlin Bustos, a data science consultant. We talk about what her work looks like, her experience doing a data science bootcamp, how data science is not one thing, and more.

Find more at datahumans.club

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Perms and Combs in Calculus: https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/zju/math/perm-comb.html

Kaitlin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaitlinbustos/

Music: Savour The Moment by Shane Ivers -
https://www.silvermansound.com

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Meet Brittany Buggs: teaching, healthy retrospection, and getting clear on what you want

Season 1 · Episode 2

Thursday, November 17, 2022 • Duration 40:05

Meet Brittany Buggs, a senior data analyst. We talk about what her day-to-day work looks like, why teaching high school statistics shaped the way she's able to communicate and collaborate as an analyst, how getting clear on what she wanted from a job helped her focus her career, and more.

Find more at datahumans.club

Stuff mentioned in the episode -

Teach for America: https://www.teachforamerica.org/

Rocket Mortgage: https://www.myrocketcareer.com/

Kinaxis: https://www.kinaxis.com/en/careers

Brittany on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittanybuggs/

Music: Savour The Moment by Shane Ivers -
https://www.silvermansound.com

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Meet Kayla Williamson: biostatistics, transitioning from academia to industry, and internal vs. external accountability

Season 1 · Episode 1

Thursday, November 3, 2022 • Duration 43:08

Meet Kayla Williamson, a biostatistician. We talk about what biostatistics looks like for her, what her journey from academics to industry looked like, and our shared struggle of working on personal projects when we're more motivated by external accountability vs. internal.

Find more at datahumans.club

Stuff mentioned in the episode -

Not So Standard Deviations Podcast: https://nssdeviations.com/

Design Thinking by Nigel Cross: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/design-thinking-9781350092662/

Build a Career in Data Science Podcast: https://podcast.bestbook.cool/

The Four Tendencies book and quiz: https://gretchenrubin.com/books/the-four-tendencies/ and https://gretchenrubin.com/quiz/the-four-tendencies-quiz/

SAS on Demand for Academics (how to use SAS for free if you want to learn): https://www.sas.com/en_us/software/on-demand-for-academics.html

Kayla on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayla-williamson-6652b1120/

Music: Savour The Moment by Shane Ivers -
https://www.silvermansound.com

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