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

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/u/fe63fcc5de36?source=post_page-----a7a7798088e6--------------------------------" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Cassie Kozyrkov</a></p> <p>&nbsp;is the Chief Decision Scientist at Google. So what does that mean she does all day?</p> <p>&ldquo;Everyone asks me that!&rdquo; she says.</p> <p>&ldquo;The truth is, what I do day-to-day varies a lot, and you&rsquo;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&rsquo;s what one does all day: email and meetings. But if you&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;</p> <p>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.</p> <p><a href="https://blog.medium.com/how-a-high-level-google-data-scientist-found-success-and-a-fulfilling-creative-outlet-on-medium-a7a7798088e6"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>