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Data Science Hangout

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Upcoming episodes

Nick Wan
24
Apr 2025
Nick Wan
Join us with Nick at the Cincinnati Reds to chat about sports analytics, data science game shows, and streaming data science on Twitch.
Trevor Fry
01
May 2025
Trevor Fry
Join us with Trevor Fry at Pinterest to explore the intersection of people analytics and data science, leveraging data to inform organizational decisions, and his passion for bridging the science-practice gap.
Cara Thompson
08
May 2025
Cara Thompson
Join us with Cara at Building Stories with Data to chat about why she loves data viz and how she ended up setting up a business to pursue it full time.
Sajay Suresh
15
May 2025
Sajay Suresh
Join us with Sajay at Microsoft to chat about how to use data and ML/AI models to fundamentally drive business strategy. He’s also happy to talk through any questions you have on how Microsoft creates demand models to forecast AI and Cloud.

ABOUT DATA SCIENCE HANGOUT

Helping data science leaders grow together

We’ve built a group of data scientists that celebrate what it means to be a leader. We prioritize representation from all different industries, genders, ethnicities, backgrounds, and years of experience.

It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been in the data science game — your title, background, or education either.

What does matter is that you’re passionate about learning, celebrating diverse perspectives, and raising the bar for what it means to be a data scientist.

So join with an open mind, an appetite to learn, and if you’re up to the challenge, something to contribute to your fellow data scientists.

When you grow, we grow.
Hope to see you there!

What happens in a Data Science Hangout?

Each week, host Rachael Dempsey invites an accomplished data science leader to talk about their experience and answer questions from the audience.

The discussion focuses mainly on the human elements of data science leadership. There’s no sales or marketing fluff, just great insights from inspiring professionals.

Featured speakers

Interested in leading a Data Science Hangout?
Send Rachael Dempsey an email at

rachael@posit.co

or add her on LinkedIn

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Brown-Forman

Posit tools allowed our statisticians and data scientists to turn into application developers and data engineers without learning any new languages or computer science skills.

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BioBuilder

The COVID-induced changes in education led BioBuilder to reimagine its curriculum.

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City of Reykjavik

The data science team in the city of Reykjavík, Iceland is using Posit Connect to impact the citizens of their city, one Shiny app at a time.

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AstraZeneca

Training & empowering more than 1,100 R users at AstraZeneca

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PING

At PING, a small team of engineers, technologists, and data scientists harness the power of Posit Connect to democratize golf through data insights with a dynamic new user-facing application.

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Stack Overflow

Posit Connect has reduced the frustrations and increased the effectiveness for all of us on the data team at Stack Overflow. It's been a game changer for communicating the results of our analyses and modeling!

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