Sorcha Gilroy is the Head of Data Community and Data Science Team Lead at Peak and joins Wendy this week on Would You Data Scientist. Hear Sorcha’s story of getting into data, being a woman in data science, finding allies in the industry, and Sorcha tells us the advantages of using R. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• It’s never too late or too early to learn a new skill set. You might find that learning R of C++ will open new opportunities in your career. 
• Although Sorcha and half of her team did take the PHD route, she doesn't think it’s necessary to get into data science. Peak offers a data science graduate scheme which you can find in the notes below. 
• Curating data beforehand is very difficult, so your best bet is to test and edit the data for bias afterwards. 
• A lot of the responsibility of addressing issues with biassed data is put on those people in misrepresented groups. It shouldn’t be on them to fix it, it should be the people making the data sets job to make sure there is no bias. 

BEST MOMENTS

’I’ve fallen in love with R in the last few years’ 

‘If you’re not in you can’t win’ 

‘Data science teams are never gender balanced’ 

EPISODE RESOURCES

Sorcha on LinkedIn

Peak Data Science Graduate Scheme

Jobs at Peak

peak.ai/community

VALUABLE RESOURCES

linkedin.com/in/ethicalrecruiter

qwerkrecruitment.com

@qwerkrec on socials

ABOUT THE GUEST 

Sorcha Gilroy: “Peak helps the world's smartest companies put the power of AI at the centre of all commercial decision making, with Decision Intelligence, a brand new category of AI technology. It unlocks the power of a business's most valuable asset, its data, by helping people make decisions over complex information faster, more consistently, more accurately than ever before.

I joined Peak in 2019 as a data scientist and now as a team leader, I manage a team of data scientists. We work with a wide variety of customers delivering AI solutions to help them make better decisions.”

ABOUT THE HOST

Wendy Gannon started Qwerk Recruitment in the middle of the Covid Pandemic to disrupt the recruitment sector with ETHICAL data recruitment and treat everyone with love, dignity and respect. Avid Music photographer of 15 years.

PODCAST DESCRIPTION

Interviewing successful Data Scientists to find out about their journey into Data Science and any struggles they’ve faced to help next generation Data Scientists from all walks of life to access their dream career.

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