Get with the program(ming): Accessible Data Science, with Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Not Another Science Podcast

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel started her maths career as an actuary, where she spent her days wrangling data and studying after work for her exams. She loved working with data, but doing the exams… not so much. So she embarked on a PhD in statistics, where she discovered a love for teaching and all things pedagogical. Mine’s career since has combined these two passions, and now she works to promote accessibility in data science and statistics, and boost the representation of women and other minority groups. Tune in to find out more, and stick around ‘til the end to meet Mine’s cat Dorian Gray (which is, by all accounts, a truly excellent name for a cat).

You can find Mine on Twitter @minebocek. Check out Data Science in a Box at datasciencebox.org, and the statistics with R course at coursera.org/specializations/statistics.

Sign up for DataFest, an undergraduate competition for students at the University of Edinburgh and Heriot Watt at http://bit.ly/df-edi. Registrations close March 19th!

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