Bruh, what’s up with this blog?

I am a swirling red helix looking thingy I generated while trying to be like the cool kids using Stable Diffusion. Is that enough for you?

But for reelz. I’m a data scientist with 10 years of experience building ML models and working with this beautifully disgusting data. I’m sad because I’ll never meet the data I work with. But I’m happy because I like seeing it organized neatly in my matrix. That’s all we’re living in anyway, right Elon?

Like you, I want to learn something new every day. I started this blog to share what I’m learning and hopefully inspire you to see your daily problem in a different light.

Data Scientists need to know how to communicate to their CEO’s, whether that’s an actual CEO or just their manager. But they also want to be brilliantly smart as they too often compare themselves to their PhD-level coworkers.

Why is this anonymous?

I’d share my name and job, but, like you, I know that the corporate world is filled with politics. If this blog wasn’t anonymous, I’d fear that sometimes my manager or boss might mis-interpret something I write (should the post be speaking about data science culture or frustrations). I want to focus on the content I write so that I can try in my own way to help improve the data science culture. If you’ve worked in data science, you probably know how frustrating it is that you still don’t actually know what your job is.

For example, I feel comfortable saying “my pronouns [is] data [are] beautiful”. Sadly, too many people mis-conugate data…[is]n’t that a pity? The lonely datum feels forgotten about…

So what are your shmancy credentials, Anonymous?

You have no way of verifying this, but I actually did work at a FAANG company as a data scientist. I’ve been at a fortune 500, startups of unicorn, failed, and early-stage sizes…So I’d say I have experience working with the absolute smallest and biggest companies in the world and some of the smartest and dumbest people too. I’m 95% confident I’ve been on the dumb end most of the time.

Oh, and I’m only a lowly masters graduate, which means I’m insecure about math formulas. Why do I have to refer to you as Dr. X but you not refer to me as Master Y? I’m an advocate for calling people by their first name and that, like poop, brilliant and stupid ideas come from everyone. Can you relate? Let’s do this.