My Journey as a Data Scientist

Annie Flippo

I work as a Manager of Analytics / Lead Data Scientist

at Thinknear by Telenav

We are a location-based advertising platform

GPS navigation software for car manufacturers

Connected cars provide opportunities

Education

Interests

Physics ...

... Math ...

Economics ... Econometrics ... Programming

Internship

My Internships

Alberta Energy

National Research Council

Department of Defense

More Grad School?

My First Job - Programmer

Product Manager

Design Development and Release Strategies ...

Manage Resources & Create QA Plans ...

Manage Time ... User Experience ... Customers

Great Training Ground

Worked at Companies

Big and Small

Stay at Home Mom

Stay Current with Technology

Continue to study

Plan to return to work

Get a Certification

Database Administrator

As a DBA, I worked as a/an

ETL Engineer

Data Analyst

Security Engineer

At the same time, I was Retooling

Massive Open Online Classes

More Statistics ...

Visualizations ...

R ... Python ... Machine Learning

I became a Data Scientist

Well, I've been doing this for while now

Customer Intent

Customer Segmentation

A/B Tests to improve Ad CTR

A Day in the Life

Code Data Science APIs

Understand Social Data

Grow Our Audience

Improve ROI on everything ...

Predict YouTube Views

Predict Success of new Series

NLP to match assets

A/B Tests to increase ROI in Ad Spend

We're Hiring!

Looking for people who:

Loves and understands data

are Effective Communicator

are Great Coder

thinknear.com/careers

telenav.com/careers

Get Involved

I volunteer:

Guest Lecturer & Panel Speaker

Conferences & Meetups

We Quant LA (wequantla.com)

What I'm interested in ...

Neural Networks

Artificial Intelligence

Self-Driving Cars

Advanced Lane Line Detection

Behavioral Cloning to Drive a Car

Vehicle Detection and Tracking

Drumroll Please ...

Love What You Do          

and ...

         Do What You Love!

Simple, right?

Thank You

acflippo

@acflippo