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May 2021
26m 48s

DIY With AI: The Home Depot's Huiming Qu

MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
About this episode
Huiming Qu didn’t plan to work in data science, a nascent field at the time she was pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science, but one course in data mining changed all of that. She started her career in the research department at IBM, transitioned to a 50-person startup, spent some time in the financial services industry, and today leads data science and machine ... Show More
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