CEO of Decision.ai: Dan Becker | What does it take to become a Data Scientist? | Kaggle Learn & Data Science Portfolio

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews founder and CEO at decision.ai: Dan Becker, you might know Dan as the creator of Kaggle learn where he enabled, or actually democratised a lot of machine learning courses that he created on kaggle.com/learn.

In this episode, they talk all about Dan's journey into the field. Dan's work at Kaggle, where he created Kaggle learn. They talk a lot about MOOCs: open online courses. What does it take to become a data scientist? And how can MOOCs come into the picture for you? How can you think of ideas or projects that can help you build a portfolio?

They also talk about Dan's new venture: decision.ai, which he's just recently started, Dan already has been a contributor to Keras and TensorFlow and has done projects, consulting projects for six companies in the Fortune 100 list of companies. They of course, talk about how that was helpful in Dan's new journey.

Links:

https://decision.ai/example

https://decision.ai

https://www.kaggle.com/learn/overview

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Dan Becker:

[email protected]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dansbecker/

https://twitter.com/dan_s_becker

https://www.kaggle.com/dansbecker

Sanyam Bhutani:

https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

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