How a high-level Google data scientist found success (and a fulfilling creative outlet) on Medium

The truth is, what I do day-to-day varies a lot, and you’ll be disappointed to know what the one constant is. The true misfortune of human adult existence is no matter what your job is, most of it is email. And meetings. That’s what one does all day: email and meetings. But if you’d like to know what the theme of my work is, let me answer that instead. I spend my time doing two kinds of things. The first is helping important people make their biggest decisions. And the second is designing applied data science processes. I think of data science as the discipline of making data useful, but it doesn’t become useful all by itself. What I do is make data science useful. Decision making is turning information into hopefully better action. And information in electronic form is data, so both of these themes come together when a decision requires the support of a data science project.” Kozyrkov grew up in South Africa, where she began her undergraduate studies in statistics at Nelson Mandela University before moving to the United States to complete a degree in economics at the University of Chicago. She then earned graduate degrees in mathematical statistics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience from Duke University and North Carolina State University. A renowned artificial intelligence and data-science thought leader and frequent keynote speaker at technology conferences, she has been selected three times by LinkedIn as the #1 Top Voice in Data Science and Analytics. Kozyrkov began posting on Medium in 2018, and currently has some 150,000 followers. I spoke to her about how she got started on Medium, why she writes on the platform, what advice she has for other Medium writers, and more. Our conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity. <a href="https://blog.medium.com/how-a-high-level-google-data-scientist-found-success-and-a-fulfilling-creative-outlet-on-medium-a7a7798088e6">Read More</a>