Data science hangout

Zac Garland

Director of Econometrics & Data Science @ Mastercard Economics Institute

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The importance of open source and code-based approaches to data science.

Episode notes

The Data Science Hangout is a weekly, free-to-join open conversation for current and aspiring data science leaders. An accomplished leader in the space will join us each week and answer whatever questions the audience may have.

We were recently joined by Zac Garland, Manager of Econometrics & Data Science at Mastercard

A few snippets:

7:00 – The importance of open source

9:20 – The idea of “inner source” and how we use this to talk about open-source

18:08 – How to measure which model is best

32:27 – Measuring Success in data science

35:44 – Leveraging team skills regardless of technology

37:46 – Benefits of code-based data science

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Featured in this episode

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Zac Garland

Director of Econometrics & Data Science @ Mastercard Economics Institute
Zac is passionate about code first data science, design, & development. In his free time, he enjoys woodworking, cooking, listening to music, and hiking with his mountain pup Winston.
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Rachael Dempsey

Community Manager at Posit, PBC
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.