Arcenis Rojas

Arcenis is a data scientist with the Indeed Hiring Lab, where he supports a team of economists performing labor market analyses. His journey into data science started in an Econometrics class while completing a Master's program in Economics at The City College of NY. This was the class in which he began to learn R and, simultaneously, help other people learn R. After graduating from this program, he went to work as an economist for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, where he would go on to help people with research using R and to become the coordinator of the R Users' Group. He later even created an R package to facilitate the use of Consumer Expenditure Surveys Public-Use Microdata. Since then, he has worked in private industry in various roles with companies that include Deloitte and Amazon Web Services, and across industries including aviation, health, oil & gas, and people analytics.

I'm a data science educator and community builder who wants to help you cultivate a community of practice for yourself. I talk a lot about the benefits of making genuine human connections, the power of vulnerability, and why we all benefit when we show up as our whole selves. I'm also the host of the Data Humans podcast where my motto is: data science is not one thing.

I love connecting people across the data science community to share what they're accomplishing with data and help others do the same through community discussions, industry meetups, and more.