Back in Episode #896, I argued that AI probably won’t be taking your job anytime soon. I followed that up in Episode #904 by discussing how some industries are nevertheless being rapidly and thoroughly disrupted by AI. In that episode, I focused on how AI is overhauling the advertising industry in particular. My post announcing the episode on LinkedIn generated a lot of discussion in the comments and garnered over 50,000 impressions within the first few hours of posting, which led me to the idea of having a series of Friday episodes that cover how particular industries are, like advertising, being rapidly and thoroughly overhauled by AI, with lessons for everyone on how we can adapt to this inevitable change and potentially leverage the winds of change to thrive professionally.
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Bringing Data to the People
This week's guest is super-cool Anjali Shrivastava. Anjali makes data accessible and broadly appealing by analyzing pop culture — from TikTok mansions to Star Wars timelines — in her fun and creative YouTube videos.
Anjali is an expert in data-science visualization. She has used this skill set to engineer visualizations of data in production systems in a number of roles and recently took up a data science role at the lab technology giant Thermo Fisher Scientific.
We dig into her technical expertise, including her favorite software tools and applications for viz. We also discuss Anjali's mission to bring a face to data, which she accomplishes through journalism as well as through her brilliant and fun "Vastava" YouTube channel.
Anjali holds dual degrees from the prestigious University of California, Berkeley in data science, as well as in industrial engineering and operations research. A recent graduate, she fill us in on what a data science degree curriculum is like at a top university like Berkeley, as well as how anyone can access their world class data science lectures online.
Listen or watch here.