010: From Ecology to Silicon Valley--Ted Hart found work he loved in industry

Ted leveraged his knowledge of computer programming and data management, gained while an ecology grad student, to become a data scientist. Listen to Ted's journey from ecology to Silicon Valley! Ted is a data scientist at a large company in Silicon Valley (he is not officially allowed to disclose what company he works for). He has a PhD in environmental biology from the University of Vermont. He has worked as a staff scientist at the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) prior to taking his current position. Biggest Struggle Needing to work and find his own funding in order to pay for his research. Worst Moment Having a paper sent out for revision at Science but then getting rejected. Best Moment Receiving his NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG). Mindful Minutes Segment Habit: Coding, data management, and writing good commit messages Book: (1) Doing Data Science: Straight Talk from the Frontline by Cathy O'Neil (2) An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R by Garath James (3) Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction Productivity Tool: Git , GitLab , and GitHub Best Advice: Learn R Hobbies: Trail running, and if time permits skiing and rock climbing Alternative PhD study: Economics Contact Information and Resources Twitter Software Carpentry Blog post on the tension between skill building and doing good research Simply Statistics Stanford online course John Hopkins Coursera Intro and Outro Music : - Happy Rock

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010: From Ecology to Silicon Valley--Ted Hart found work he loved in industry is an episode from Rock Your Research with Chris Jones by Chris Jones.

This episode is 42:16 long.

This episode was published on Oct 6, 2015.

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