In this special episode of the Big Data Beard podcast, we partnered with the team from Data Science Salon (https://datascience.salon/) to bring you a women in data science panel. \xa0Panelists for this episode include\xa0Maureen Johnson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenalicejohnson/), a data ethicist at Data for Democracy,\xa0Eunice Chendjou (https://www.linkedin.com/in/eunice-chendjou/) founder and CEO of DataGig (we recorded a\xa0podcast episode (https://bit.ly/BDB_EP63)with her),\xa0Hillary Green Lerman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillary-green-lerman-39894b18/), a Sr. Curriculum Lead at DataCamp and\xa0 moderated by\xa0Randi Ludwig (https://www.linkedin.com/in/randi-r-ludwig-717150114/), a data scientist at Dell EMC. \xa0Randi and the panelists explore some of the extremely important issues and challenges for women working in tech and talk about some ways they have overcome certain challenges in their careers. \xa0The panel also talks about the importance of inclusion and having more women and minorities join the technology and data science workforce. \n\n\nThe Data Science Salon in Austin was an amazing event. \xa0If you were not able to attend, don\u2019t worry there will be another Data Science Salon coming in\xa0New York City (https://datascience.salon/ny6-19/)on June 13th, 2019. \xa0Use promo code BDBEARD19 for 15% off you conference pass.\n\n\nMusic from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).\xa0 Please go check him out...you'll thank us!