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Matt Phair did not expect to be a data scientist when he was a butcher in his younger days. But after some school and getting some experience he found technology to be a great vehicle for social mobility. Matt talks to us about Peapod Digital Labs using data science to make the shopping experience better. He also shares some suggestions for folks who aspire to become great data scientists or developers. \xa0 Matt's show notes:

• LinkedIn:\xa0www.linkedin.com/in/matt-phair
• Peapod Digital Labs:\xa0https://www.peapoddigitallabs.com
• Heroku:\xa0https://www.heroku.com/I\u2019m a huge fan of Heroku! It\u2019s really fast and easy to host a small web app and database for free but it\u2019s also scales really well! I\u2019ve used this for my own personal projects as well as for production apps. In my opinion it\u2019s much easier than AWS or Azure.\xa0
• Coursera:\xa0https://www.coursera.org
• The best education program I\u2019ve done was a data science certificate program through John\u2019s Hopkins. It took about 11 months to complete cost roughly $1,200. This program contributed more to my career than everything I studied at university. This was 8 years ago. The program appears to have been revamped and broken into multiple sub-specializations on Coursera. Here are the three related specializations:
  • https://www.coursera.org/specializations/data-science-statistics-machine-learning
  • https://www.coursera.org/specializations/data-science-foundations-r
  • https://www.coursera.org/specializations/jhu-data-science
• \xa0Recently I completed a few courses in Coursera\u2019s \u201cMathematics for Machine Learning\u201d specialization. These courses connect the dots between math and ML/DL.\xa0\xa0I really liked them and would also highly recommend:\xa0https://www.coursera.org/specializations/mathematics-machine-learning