Christina Stathopoulos, Analytical Lead for Waze and Adjunct Professor at IE Business School, joins the podcast to shed light on her work with geospatial data and how she nurtured an entire data career while abroad in Spain.\n\nIn this episode you will learn:\n\u2022 Christina's tips on navigating an unconventional path into a data career [3:05]\n\u2022 Geospatial data and open-source packages for working with it [10:08]\n\u2022 Guidance to help women and other underrepresented groups to thrive in tech [22:28]\n\u2022 The hard and soft skills most essential to success in a data role today [39:26]\n\u2022 Christina\u2019s #bookaweekchallenge and the top data-centric book recommendations [43:28]\n\nAdditional materials: www.superdatascience.com/603