An incredible young guest is in this episode after he attended DSGO. Edis is a 15-year-old, building his own neural networks. We discussed his background, his process of building neural networks from scratch, Kaggle competitions, and the benefit of online data science education.

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/317

The Super Data Science Podcast: Big Data | Analytics Careers | Mentors | Success

SDS 317: A Deep Dive Into Neural Nets

I chatted with top Upwork freelancer Wesley Engers who has worked over 150 jobs in data science. He’s worked in a variety of industries and shared a few of his most interesting jobs and offered advice for those considering diving into freelance data science work.

In this episode you will learn:
• Wesley on Upwork [9:11] 
• Wesley’s background [16:20]
• How Wesley onboards a client [26:32]
• Good clients vs. bad clients [31:12]
• Tools [37:23]
• Wesley’s best projects [45:09]
• Freelance vs. full-time work [59:26]
• Tips about getting into Upwork [1:06:48]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/323

SDS 323: Data Science as a Freelance Career

Hadelin and I outlined our top 5 trends in Data Science for 2020. We discussed why they’re hot topics and how companies can utilize them to drive profit and efficiency in the coming year.

In this episode you will learn:
• The decade in review [1:45]
• A decade preview [5:20]
• 2020 trends webinar [7:30]
• Robotic process automation [9:00]
• Natural language processing [18:28]
• Reinforcement learning [26:35]
• Edge computing [37:25]
• Open source AI frameworks [52:02]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/327

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