As the Head of Data Science at Scouts Consulting Group, Ken Jee spends his work days improving the performance of athletes and teams by analyzing the data collected on them. In his free time, Ken dabbles in entrepreneurship and content creation. He is best known for his YouTube channel focused on data science and machine learning with over 130,000 subscribers. More recently, Ken has turned his focus to project-based learning through Kaggle. He started the #66DaysOfData challenge to help people create the habit of learning and working on projects every day. In the interview, we talk about Ken's personal journey into sports analytics and YouTube, and his advice for data science learners. He also shares his learnings on best practices in sports analytics consulting, and what it takes to break into the field.
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