From PhD drop-out to Google Data Scientist with Meg Risdal [Podcast #142]
495On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Meg Risdal. She's a data scientist and Product Manager at Kaggle, Google's Data Science competition platform.
Megan works closely with the global data science community, and on Google's Gemma open models project.
We talk about:
Google's Kaggle, which hosts 300k open data sets and runs data science competitions each week that anyone can participate in.
How people talk in academia VS how people talk in tech
Stack Overflow VS Kaggle – how Megan contrasts what it was like to work on these two "communities of practice"
Linguistics and its importance in LLMs and AI research
Can you recognize the song I'm playing during the intro? It's a punk song from 1994.
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Links we talk about during our conversation:
Meg's blog: https://www.meg.dev/
The Sliced Data Science Gameshow that Meg co-hosted with Nick Wan: • SLICED: SEASON 1
Meg on Twitter: / meganrisdal
Kaggle's open learning resources: https://www.kaggle.com/learn
The Gemma team at Google that Meg also works on: https://ai.google.dev/gemma