How does keeping your GitHub page up to date make you more employable? Yiannis Pitsillides, Lead Data Scientist at Endeavor joins Wendy this week on Would You Data Scientist to discuss that topic, the future of data, photography, his advice for starting out in data science, and Yiannis shares the story of how he worked his way up to where he is today. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The main hurdle Yiannis had to overcome when getting into data was the formula and the maths side. He found learning this alongside the other components was very difficult to do together. 
• His biggest piece of advice is that you can find so much open source code on Google. 
• When pivoting to data, Yiannis recommends having something on your CV that shows you can handle software and the maths side. Also Yiannis looks for a GitHub profile to look through a candidate's skills. 
• The worst advice Yiannis ever got was to throw himself into deep learning, that's too much for anyone just starting out in data to take on. 

BEST MOMENTS

‘I highly recommend you update your GitHub profiles' 

‘Stick to the basics'

‘I think I've only ever met two female data engineers' 

EPISODE RESOURCES

Yiannis on LinkedIn
Yiannis on YouTube
https://www.widsconference.org/
https://www.womenintech.co.uk/

VALUABLE RESOURCES

linkedin.com/in/ethicalrecruiter
qwerkrecruitment.com
@qwerkrec on socials

ABOUT THE HOST

Wendy Gannon started Qwerk Recruitment in the middle of the Covid Pandemic to disrupt the recruitment sector with ETHICAL data recruitment and treat everyone with love, dignity and respect. Avid Music photographer of 15 years.

PODCAST DESCRIPTION

Interviewing successful Data Scientists to find out about their journey into Data Science and any struggles they've faced to help next generation Data Scientists from all walks of life to access their dream career.

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