From the course: Insights on Data Science: Lillian Pierson

How did you make your way into data science?

From the course: Insights on Data Science: Lillian Pierson

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How did you make your way into data science?

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- I started off as a teenager doing advanced research in chemistry, and we were deuterating RNA and DNA molecules, and I had to work based on the data insights I would get from a NMR machine, because I didn't have the working knowledge. I didn't have the advanced background in chemistry. And I've always since then been cognizant of the power of data insights. Later in school I got into geographic information systems. And then as an environmental engineer, most of my first tasks were using statistics to validate results. And as I moved further in my career, I just gravitated more towards the modeling and the analysis type of tasks and less interested in doing design work. And so it was a natural transition from there. I find that all throughout my career I've been doing tasks that fall into the purview of data science, but it wasn't until I discovered that that's actually a field in and of itself that I really got passionate and interested in doing data science as a career.

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