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Apr 2021
47m 16s

Charting a Course: from Physics PhD to P...

Dat Science Salon
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What was it like to move from a physics lab into the data scientist's chair?  How did she find that first job? And what elements of her PhD experience have proven especially valuable in her machine learning work?  Join us in this conversation to find out.

  • Dr Sarkar works on machine learning at Slice . (She's hiring!)
  • You can also find her on LinkedIn.
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