665: How to be both socially impactful and financially successful in your data career

Published: March 28, 2023, 11 a.m.

Angel investor and data science consultant Josh Wills sits down with Jon Krohn to discuss his former roles (Google, Slack, and Cloudera) and the essential skills for engineering scalable machine learning projects.\nThis episode is brought to you by Pathway, the reactive data processing framework, and by epic LinkedIn Learning instructor Keith McCormick. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.\nIn this episode you will learn:\u2022 Josh's 'Data Engineering for Machine Learning' course [06:50]\u2022 Contextual bandits [10:52]\u2022 Data quality and monitoring [16:45]\u2022 The \u201cinfinite loop of sadness\u201d in data product development [25:12]\u2022 Josh\u2019s definition of a data scientist [30:02]\u2022 Josh's role at WeaveGrid [37:36]\u2022 Management-Track vs Independent Contributor [48:47]\u2022 Josh's work on the Covid pandemic [1:06:46]\u2022 Josh\u2019s favorite tech stack [1:11:13]\nAdditional materials: www.superdatascience.com/665