Conor Dewey

🗣 Compilation of Advice for New and Aspiring Data Scientists

Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve noticed more and more posts on Medium and elsewhere in the data science community centered around offering up advice to newcomers in the field...

🎒 I Backpacked Solo Across Europe for 3 Months

Time most certainly does fly. I’m sitting here with my laptop at the airport in Dublin right now waiting for my plane to arrive. After 8 short hours or so, I’ll touch down in New York to settle down and start my new job...

🔢 MVA: Minimum Viable Analysis

We spend our time pouring over granular datasets, finding mistakes, cleaning them, building predictive models, producing visualizations, deriving insights, and communicating those insights to stakeholders in the hope of driving impact...

📰 13 Essential Newsletters for Data Scientists

If you’re anything like me, you subscribe to newsletters. Lots of newsletters. Like, too many newsletters. I can’t help myself. When done right, newsletters are an excellent form of content curation..

👊 Reasons Don’t Matter: A Lesson from Steve Jobs

You’ve heard the cliché. Employers don’t want excuses, they want facts, supporting data, and most importantly, results. They aren’t concerned with your story, just make sure you keep things moving up and to the right...

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