Explore Career: Data Science ft. Facebook & Lyft DS Manager
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Sean Taylor has over 10 years experience as a Data Scientist, having worked as a Data Scientist and Data Science Manager at Facebook and Lyft. He is also prolific on Twitter (@seanjtaylor), regularly sharing his thoughts on the field, projects he's working on, tools he's using and problems he's trying to solve, and has gathered ~44K followers in the process. Sean has a PhD in Information Systems from NYU Stern School of Business.
In this discussion, Sean touches on a wide range of topics including:
- How having a vast network of like minded people on Twitter has helped him
- How working openly and sharing things that are still "Work in progress" has been a contributor to building this network and producing a better output
- Types of projects he has worked on as a Data Scientist
- How candidates can try to evaluate whether an opportunity is meaty enough
- Ways to try and assess how empowered the function is when evaluating an opportunity, even though it's not easy.
