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Women in Tech Thursdays: Talking with Didem Un Ates about tech, education and being TechWomen100 Champion
This Thursday we did our last interview for Women in Tech Thursdays with absolutely inspiring Woman in Tech, Didem Un Ates. Didem is a General Manager of Customer Success for Microsoft’s Azure Data Platform, Analytics & Artificial Intelligence Business in EMEA, a Non-Executive Director on the Board of ‘Creative Education Trust,’ which oversees 17 high-schools
Women in Tech Thursdays: Speaking to Bhagya Reddy, Principal Data Engineer
This Thursday we’re talking with Bhagya Reddy who is the Principal Data Engineer at QuantumBlack (McKinsey) and One of the Twenty in Women in Data for 2019. Bhagya has over 16 years of Information Technology experience in the field of data engineering, software design, planning, develop, maintain, test and evaluate big data solutions within organizations
Data Analysis Bootcamp: Project Presentation
Last Wednesday marked the final day for our learners on their 12 week intensive bootcamp for Data Analyst Trainees, and to recognise all their hard work the learners delivered a project to showcase their learning. The learners were provided with data reflecting flight arrivals and departures; using their knowledge and learnings across the bootcamp, they
Women in Tech: Talking with Karen Jean-Francois about her journey as a Data Analyst
This Thursday we’re talking with Karen Jean-Francois who is a Data Analyst and Women in Data Host and Producer. Karen is passionate about how data science and analytics can support businesses and help them better understand their customers and she enjoys exploring data and finding surprising insights that make a difference. As Karen says, ‘While
Women in Tech: Talking with Kasia Kulma about her journey as a Data Scientist
Women in Tech Thursdays: Talking with Kasia Kulma about her journey as a Data Scientist. Kasia Kulma is a Senior Data Scientist with a specialisation in R and PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She has industry experience in pharma, insurance, finance, aviation, food delivery, environmental services and in her spare time contributes to opensource around Rstats
Women in Thursdays: Talking with Nassia Skoulikariti
Women in Tech Thursdays: Talking with Nassia Skoulikariti about her journey as IoT & Telco Digital Transformation Specialist Nassia is the IoT & Telco Digital Transformation Specialist and CEO and Founder of Apiro Data. She helps companies commercialise their digital transformation to drive operational efficiencies, find new business opportunities, create new connected products and solve
8 Best Tech jobs to take on in 2021 if you want to start or change your career
The tech industry is booming in 2021 and if you’re giving your career some consideration or you’re future-proofing your skillset, then here’s everything you need to know about the high demand jobs in technology. These are the best tech jobs because not only do they offer high salaries, favorable employment growth, and excellent satisfaction ratings,
Women in Tech Thursdays: Talking with Susanna Lawson
Women in Tech Thursdays: Talking with Susanna Lawson about her journey as a CEO and Co-Founder Susanna is a CEO and Co-Founder of OneFile, which in 2017 was awarded the Queen’s Award for Innovation and Susanna was crowned Forward Ladies/HSBC Business Woman of the Year. Speaking at events promoting apprenticeships and the challenges facing SME’s,
What is data science and why it is important?
What is data science? Data science is a process which combines both predictive and prescriptive analytics. It’s main aim is to analyze the data to uncover any hidden patterns, any requisite information, which can further be leveraged to ace business goals. Furthermore, it also prescribes a way forward in order to fix the broken. A
Women in Tech Thursdays: Talking with Madalina Daniela Mihailescu about her journey as Data Analyst
Women in Tech Thursdays: Talking with Madalina Daniela Mihailescu about her journey as a Data Scientist and Tutor Madalina is a Training Consultant at Purple Beard Training who delivers the Introduction to R course in the Data Analytics Bootcamp. In addition to this role, she is currently studying for a PhD in Data Science, with
Software Development Bootcamp: 5 weeks into teaching presentation
“The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn’t need to be reformed — it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each individual , to put students in an environment where they
Women in Tech Thursdays: Talking with Sushree Mohanty about her journey as Software Developer
Women in Tech Thursdays: Talking with Sushree Mohanty about her journey as a Software Developer Sushree Mohanty is a Software Development Trainer on our Skills Bootcamps. She is a UI developer with over 2 years of industrial experience and 11 years of coding experience (yes, she started coding when she was very young). Sushree teaches
