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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Vicki Boykis.
Vicki Boykis is currently a machine learning engineer at Automattic as well as a published writer on topics in the data science space.\\xa0
Vicki received a Bachelors degree in Economics from Penn State and her MBA from Temple. That\\u2019s right, she didn\\u2019t study computer science in university! She became curious in software engineering at her job at Comcast. She decided to learn on her own with a little help from her peers. Oh, and she took a few online courses from a community college!
Vicki has 10+ years\\u2019 experience in helping companies across a broad range of industries make their data actionable. Most recently, she has built machine learning data products in Python but she has also worked with R, Tableau, Spark (Scala and Python), and Hadoop.\\xa0
In her spare time, she enjoys reading, running, and mentoring people new to the tech industry.
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Episode Summary
\\u201cMoving into the data science space was almost like a stroke of luck because I had no idea that it even existed.\\u201d
\\u201cI knew that if I did a Coursera course I wouldn\\u2019t be able to concentrate on it because I wouldn\\u2019t feel like there was enough at stake. But the community college program was for actual credits and you get an actual certificate. It felt a little more structured and a little more real to me.\\u201d
\\u201cFor my MBA program what really helped me was taking accounting and finance classes. I started to understand that the people who manage companies and the people who are responsible for budgets think in terms of revenue and costs of projects and opportunity costs.\\u201d
\\u2014Vicki Boykis
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Additional Resources
Vicki suggests anyone getting into tech should read Hacker News! \\u2013 https://thehackernews.com/
Mike Gualtieri \\u2013 Tech Analyst at Forrester (#38) \\u2013 Previous episode mentioned\\xa0
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