This week, I gave a talk at Valley TechCon in Harrisonburg, VA (where I live), which is a conference that features tech businesses and practitioners from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and is in its 2nd year. There were a bunch of cool topics and speakers, and it was great to see what other great tech is being built in my part of the world! I said I’d share my slides on my “SQL for Data Science” talk, so here they are! I only had 40 minutes, so this wasn’t a full tutorial, and I couldn’t really teach many different concepts, but my main goal was to point out a bunch of different stuff you ..read more

In the first episode of the Becoming a Data Scientist podcast recorded in front of a live audience, Renee interviews Andrew Therriault – formerly the Director of Data Science for the Democratic National Committee & Chief Data Officer for the City of Boston, and currently Data Science Manager at Facebook – about how he learned data science, what advice he has for people who want to learn data science and apply for data science jobs, and about his career path as a Data Scientist and leader in the field. Recorded at Tom Tom Fest Applied Machine Learning Conference in Charlottesville, VA on A ..read more