Joseph Cooper is the Head of Data Science at Club View. He joins Wendy this week on Would You Data Scientist to share his advice for getting into data, tell you about the work he does at Club View and how he's trying to beat sports clubs' own models, and find out his thoughts on diversity and the future of data science.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Being made redundant or losing your job is not the end of the world, it can be the start of something bigger and better.
- Joe's advice is to get hands-on experience with algorithms. Early on in his career, he tried to build some of the classic algorithms by hand, not using packages, just trying by hand with python.
- Joe didn't do statistics or maths at university so getting that hands-on experience really taught him and gave him that basic understanding.
- Joe has found that diversity on the other end of the job application has been lacking. The people posting the jobs and conducting the interviews were mostly white.
- If you have a diverse team, then bias in your data will be picked up much quicker.
BEST MOMENTS
'If you understand the workings behind something then you can do a better job of it'
‘There's a lot of room for change'
‘There's room for people to enter the field and grow within it'
EPISODE RESOURCES
Joseph on LinkedIn
www.clubview.io
VALUABLE RESOURCES
linkedin.com/in/ethicalrecruiter
qwerkrecruitment.com
@qwerkrec on socials
ABOUT THE GUEST
“Head of Data Science at ClubView, where we are pushing the boundaries of what machine learning can offer sports teams. If you are interested in roles then we are keen to offer opportunities to data scientists that are willing to learn and grow with the company.”
ABOUT THE HOST
Wendy Gannon started Qwerk Recruitment in the middle of the Covid Pandemic to disrupt the recruitment sector with ETHICAL data recruitment and treat everyone with love, dignity and respect. Avid Music photographer of 15 years.
PODCAST DESCRIPTION
Interviewing successful Data Scientists to find out about their journey into Data Science and any struggles they've faced to help next generation Data Scientists from all walks of life to access their dream career.
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