How Male Dominated Workplaces Stop Women Progressing with Victoria Cocco

Data Analyst and founder of 10in6 Inc, Victoria Cocco joins Wendy on Would You Data Scientist to tell us all about the work she does and how she went from business analytics to data analytics. Also join in the discussion including how women feel in the workplace,  data collection, Leonardo DiCaprio's Don't Look Up, and Pokemon. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Find the software that you like and use it until you can't use it anymore, you don't need to constantly upgrade and update. If you do that you might have a semi new feature but you'll constantly have to re-learn how to use the software. 
• As a data scientist you need to understand what you want to know as the end result. What are you trying to prove or solve? 
• Victoria believes that you can take a few years within an industry and then go and get a masters degree in it, even better if your company will pay for you to get one. 
• Both Wendy and Victoria have come from working backgrounds which have not been gender diverse and have had problems because of it. A more diverse team stops this kind of behaviour and allows more women to progress. 
• There are fewer women with higher education degrees than men, this can be for a multitude of reasons but none of them reflect on the ability of the person. If job posts are requiring degrees, then you will naturally get fewer women applying. 

BEST MOMENTS

'I went from a business analyst to a data analyst. That's propoly the root of data science' 

‘Not everything is a breakthrough, sometimes it's just a great step forward'

‘We've hired the top of the class and I can't say they've done much better than anyone else' 

EPISODE RESOURCES

Victoria on LinkedIn
Women in Data Science on LinkedIn
Open Data Science Conference  

Google earth for developers : https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/tutorials/community/intro-to-python-api-guiattard

VALUABLE RESOURCES

linkedin.com/in/ethicalrecruiter
qwerkrecruitment.com
@qwerkrec on socials

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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