Slides from graduates of the Metis Data Science Career Day

This month I got to attend the Career Day from the Metis Data Science bootcamp, where Metis graduates finished their 12-week intensive data science training by presenting a project. I’m a fan of the Metis program and I was really impressed at both the content of the analyses and the communication skills and focus the graduates showed (communicating a data science project in a four minute lightning talk is tough and they were up to the challenge!).

I believe in live-tweeting talks and Career Day was no exception:

Brian Cocolicchio does survival analysis of NFL positions, sees life of running back is "nasty, brutish, and short" pic.twitter.com/XMvPbtCzTI
— David Robinson (@drob) September 15, 2016

.@modernscientist uses computer vision in app that identifies wine from pic of label. I'd straight up pay for this pic.twitter.com/fptB4uVgpQ
— David Robinson (@drob) September 15, 2016

Also in this cohort was my sister Emily Robinson, who is starting her career in data science and had done the perfect project for it:

.@robinson_es builds a tool for recommending the perfect freelance data science job for your skills and background pic.twitter.com/h9e4wiwcgI
— David Robinson (@drob) September 15, 2016

In the process I got a few responses asking if the slides were available. I feel strongly that talks should be available somewhere online (as “public artifacts”), so afterwards I volunteered to host the graduates’ slides, along with their professional information, here on my blog. Below you can find the information, including slides and sometimes project links, from about half the cohort.

I think there’s nothing like an example of work to examine a candidate’s skills. So if you’re looking to hire data analysts or scientists, you should read through their projects and/or CVs and get in touch with them!