Instructions: Go to Dr. Thomley’s Index of “Becoming a Data Scientist” Interviews. Listen to ONE of the seventeen interviews and answer the following questions. Explain so a reader could get a general idea of what the person said without listening to the interview. The first sixteen interviews are also collected in a YouTube playlist.
Q01: What is the name of the person interviewed?
ANSWER:Jasmine Dumas
Q02: Why did you choose the particular interview you did?
ANSWER: The video description highglighted Dumas as a new data scientist coming from biomedical engineering and I became interested in how smooth that transformation was.
Q03: Does the person consider themselves a data scientist?
ANSWER: Yes.
Q04: What is their formal and self-taught education in data science?
ANSWER: They began being interested in data science in middle school and decided then they were going to follow the STEM path. She then majored in biomedical engineering for her bachelors degree and later outsourced professors from different universities to help with her understanding of data science.
Q05: What has been their career path? Did they start off in data science?
ANSWER: Jasmine did not start off in data science. She majored in biomedical engineering and slowly transferred her biomedical engineering skill set to be more suitable with data science and analytics.
Q06: What programs/technologies do they use when working in data science?
ANSWER: Jasmine reached out to professors to help her make the transition between the two subjects, to which the professors asked her to learn R, and this is the primary software she uses for her data.
Q07: What is one interesting (to you) data science problem they have worked on?
ANSWER: Jasmine worked on bioinformatics as a stepping stone between the two subjects to fully understand how to properly transfer her already developed skill set into data analysis skills.
Q08: Are there any specific pieces of advice they gave that inspire/resonate with you?
ANSWER:Jasmine talks about her past as a biomedical engineer as a great time in her life, and although she did not continue to pursue this path, she remembers it with great joy and continues to say that it was the right path at the time.
Q09: Was there anything that surprised you or that you particularly identified with?
ANSWER:Her analysis of the skills you need for biomedical engineering aligned with data science surprised me but also is similar to the conflict I had with choosing a major. I knew I wanted to be a part of social services and criminal justice but had a love for numbers that I could not properly incorporate into my criminal justice major.