Today's guest is Kate Strachnyi, founder of DATAcated Academy & Story by Data. Kate is regarded as one of Linkedin's Top Voices in Data Science & Analytics. An author, podcast host and advisory board member, her focus is to provide custom Linkedin content strategy solutions for companies focused on innovating in the data science, machine learning and the AI space.

Set up in March 2020, DATAcated Academy offers training data analysts on how to design effective and beautiful data visualizations. She is focused on delivering a visual best practices course that is product-agnostic. Additionally, they run the DATAcated challenge that includes crowd-sourcing information on various data-related topics, with a variety of prizes for select winners.

In the episode, Kate will tell you about:

Her contributions to the Data Science community

The motivation for founding DATAcated academy

Educating organizations on maximising their data

Balancing the workload

Upcoming projects and what’s in store for the future

Key advice on how to kickstart a career in Data Science

What she loves about her job