Fireside Chat with "Software Engineering for Data Scientists" Author Catherine Nelson

In this informal chat, Catherine will answer questions on her journey from studying ancient volcanoes to writing data science books, via deploying production machine learning models! She’ll discuss her latest book, ‘Software Engineering for Data Scientists’ and give you some recommendations for applying software engineering best practices to data science code. She’ll also answer your questions on her move into data science.

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Bio:
Catherine Nelson is a freelance data scientist and writer. She is currently working on the forthcoming O’Reilly book "Software Engineering for Data Scientists”. Previously, she was a Principal Data Scientist at SAP Concur, where she delivered production machine learning applications and developed innovative new features. She is also co-author of the O'Reilly publication ”Building Machine Learning Pipelines", and she is an organizer for Seattle PyLadies, supporting women who code in Python. In her previous career as a geophysicist she studied ancient volcanoes and explored for oil in Greenland. Catherine has a PhD in geophysics from Durham University and a Masters of Earth Sciences from Oxford University.