DiverSTOR-i Talk
14 November 2023
My career path
My experience of being a woman in data science
My advice to my former self
BSc (Hons) in Mathematics
Not a lot of statistics…
Thought I should learn some more before I got a job
So I joined STOR-i in October 2017.
Catherine Cleophas
Florian Dost
Title: Data-Driven Alerts in Airline Revenue Management
Industry partner: Lufthansa (Jonas Rauch)
Catherine Cleophas
Florian Dost
Adam Sykulski
Title: Detecting demand outliers in transport systems
Industry partner: Deutsche Bahn (Philipp Bartke and Valentin Wagner)
Online functional outlier detection
Extending to a network setting
Empirical studies with railway and bike-sharing data
Finished ~ August 2021
When I started at STOR-i, it was with the intention of going into industry
Data science consultancy seemed like a good idea
Mostly statistical advice projects
Left after three months
Data science consultancy
Data engineering
Posit (formerly RStudio) licensing
Training courses
The initial offer
Fully-remote
Mostly R development
A lot of project management
Developing and running training courses
Did I really want another data science consultancy job?
No.
Teaching and scholarship post
The interview process
Teaching, research, supervision, and engagement
Research in collaboration with NHS
R-Ladies is a worldwide organisation whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R community.
The R community suffers from an under-representation of minority genders (including but not limited to cis/trans women, trans men, non-binary, genderqueer, agender) in every role and area of participation, whether as leaders, package developers, conference speakers, conference participants, educators, or users.
PyLadies does a similar thing in the Python community.
Two (paraphrased) responses:
Why are you creating an R meetup that men can’t attend?
Why are you creating an R meetup that men can attend?
Douglas Bates
John Chambers
Peter Dalgaard
Robert Gentleman
Kurt Hornik
Ross Ihaka
Tomas Kalibera
Michael Lawrence
Brian Ripley
Friedrich Leisch
Uwe Ligges
Thomas Lumley
Martin Maechler
Sebastian Meyer
Paul Murrell
Martyn Plummer
Deepayan Sarkar
Duncan Temple Lang
Luke Tierney
Simon Urbanek
Heiner Schwarte
Guido Masarotto
Stefano Iacus
Seth Falcon
Duncan Murdoch
Martin Morgan
Women are often over-mentored and under-sponsored.
-Julia Silge
Catherine Cleophas
Rhian Davies
Jo Knight
Anastasia Ushakova
Alice Ashcroft
Xiaoyun Chen
Eleanor D’Arcy
Robyn Goldsmith
Choose a supervisor(s) you get on with.
Find a mentor: outside perspective is good.
It’s easier to get a job when you have a job.
Try different things to find out what matters to you.
Working with good people
Doing interesting things
Making things that are useful