Podcasts Technology Datacast Episode 11: Psychology and Neuroscience in Data Science with Francisco Javier Carrera Arias

Episode 11: Psychology and Neuroscience in Data Science with Francisco Javier Carrera Arias

Published: March 6, 2019, 1:30 p.m.

Show Notes:

  • (2:10) Francisco recalled his experience getting a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from Nova Southeastern University.
  • (3:42) Francisco gave a brief overview of the field of Behavioral Neuroscience.
  • (4:19) Francisco gave some recommendation for people who are interested in learning more about behavioral psychology and neuroscience.
  • (5:39) Francisco discussed his research thesis looking at “The effects of video gaming with a brain-computer interface on physiological stress and mood”.
  • (10:45) Francisco shared his opinion on the development of virtual reality technologies.
  • (12:37) Francisco talked about his experience working as a Research Assistant at the Clinical Systems Biology Lab at the Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine while at college.
  • (16:00) Francisco mentioned potential applications of his research project towards clinical treatments.
  • (16:39) In addition to getting his degree in Psychology, Francisco also minored in Applied Statistics. He talked about some of the most useful courses that he took, including applied regression analysis.
  • (18:10) Francisco talked about his Hockey Analytics internship for the Florida Panthers during his senior year.
  • (21:01) Francisco reflected on his job search process post-graduation.
  • (22:58) Francisco shared a background overview about MotionPoint, his current employer, as well as the reasons that made him excited about working there.
  • (24:25) Francisco talked about a sentiment analysis project that he worked on, in which he extracted conversation themes and key words during sales calls, then used NLP techniques to find which sales reps produce more positive sentiment in prospective clients.
  • (26:06) Francisco went in depth on his modeling approach for that sentiment analysis project.
  • (28:50) Francisco mentioned his promotion from an intern role to a full time data analyst/scientist position.
  • (29:34) Francisco shared another data science challenge he’s tackling to score client accounts.
  • (32:17) Francisco discussed his involvement with DataCamp. In particular, he wrote two tutorials on Markov Chain Analysis in R and Fuzzy String Matching in Python.
  • (35:47) Francisco talked about the value of having a degree in psychology and neuroscience for a data science role, in particular, by having a certain perspective.
  • (39:51) Francisco gave advice for people with Math & Computer Science background to learn the business aspect of a data science role.
  • (41:35) Francisco talked about his enrollment to the Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree program.
  • (42:45) Closing segment.

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