Hamdan Azhar - An Ode to Permissionless Data Science
An Ode to Permissionless Data Science by Hamdan Azhar
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Abstract: In the 11 years since Harvard Business Review called data scientist the “sexiest job of the 21st century”, the field has exploded in both popularity and societal impact. In this talk, I argue that despite seemingly fierce competition in the job market, the barriers to entry to becoming a data scientist have never been lower. Data is all around us and the tools to understand this data are ubiquitous and more powerful than ever. Through sharing stories from my journey working with data in political campaigns, emojis in social networks, and news deserts, I’ll demonstrate that the best way to become a data scientist is by doing data science.
Bio: Hamdan Azhar is a data science, analytics, and research leader with over 10 years of experience discovering meaningful insights in complex datasets and using storytelling to drive business, product, and social impact. The founder of PRISMOJI, he was formerly a director at Blockchain Technologies Corporation, and prior to that, was a data scientist at Facebook, at GraphScience, and on Ron Paul's 2012 presidential campaign. A prolific writer and public speaker, his writings on technology and culture have been published in WIRED, VICE, Forbes, the Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor. He has taught data science courses at Boston University and at the City University of New York and has delivered invited lectures in over 14 countries. He is a co-inventor on Facebook's granted patent on emoji machine learning. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Hamdan holds a master’s degree in biostatistics from the University of Michigan, a bachelor’s degree in economics from Penn State, and completed one year of the Ph.D. program in neuroscience at the University of Chicago.
Twitter: / hamdanazhar
Presented at the 2023 New York R Conference (July 14, 2023)