The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: What is a Data Scientist? Featuring Katie Bauer of GlossGenius

Episode Date: December 26, 2023

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Katie Bauer of GlossGenius.

Welcome to the Data Stack Show prequel. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You'll get to meet our guest and hear about the topics we're going to cover. If they're interesting to you, you can catch the full-length show when it drops on Wednesday. We're here with Katie Bauer from Gloss Genius. Katie, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. Excited to be here. All right. You've had an amazing career in data. Give us the quick overview.

Yeah. I got into data science in the early 2010s. I've spent time in a bunch of different places, working at a natural language search startup and social media, and now I am leading the data team at a vertical SaaS startup in the beauty and salon space. Awesome. Well, so excited to chat with you, Costas. What topics do you want to dig into? Oh, we have plenty to chat about. First of all, my favorite topic, which is always about definitions, right?

So I'd love to hear what data scientist role is, like what's the definition behind that. And more importantly, like how it has changed. Like we have Katie here today that has experienced a lot like the evolution of the role. So I'd love like to hear from her how like things have changed. And also talk a little bit more about

how the role is different in different companies, different sizes, different products, and how also the data scientist overlaps or not. We'll see. Katie will tell us. With other roles that have

to do with data. So it will be super educational for me at least, but I have a feeling that it's also going to be like for our audience. What about you, Katie? Is there something in your mind that you would like to chat about today? Yeah, that's something I think would be sort of an interesting connection to what you're talking about is what kind of problems occur across all these different types of companies. What is something I've had to do at multiple jobs or what types of problems appear in more

than one context? Yeah, let's go and do it. What do you think, Eric? Let's dig in. All right, that's a wrap for the prequel. The full-length episode will drop Wednesday morning. Subscribe now so you don't miss it.