#57 From Academic to Data Science Leader with Yuval Marom - Analytics and Data Science Professional

Yuval is an Analytics and Data Science professional with extensive commercial and academic experience. His interests and goals are to be working on interesting and practical problems where there is a need to discover and act on meaningful patterns in data, through advanced analytics and data science. I'm the founder and co-organiser of two meetups: Data Science Melbourne and MelbURN, a user group for Melbourne-based users of the R statistical and data mining programming language.  In this episode, Yuval tells us about how both of his parents are statisticians and inspired him to fall in love with data science. Growing up, he used Pascal to build spaceship games, and it motivated his passion for programming. Eventually, Yuval went for his Ph.D. and focused on applying how animals learn and behave to robotics. Simulated and physical experiments were pretty basic because robotics were not as advanced as they are today. Later, Yuval realized academia was not necessarily his calling, he was more interested in applying solutions to interesting problems. However, in recent years, research innovation and solving problems are becoming much more intertwined.  Enjoy the show! We talk about: [01:40] How Yuval fell in love with data science [05:45] Social learning in biology [08:05] Lessons learned from completing a Ph.D. [13:10] Research innovation vs. solving problems [15:40] Embrace simplicity  [18:00] Small business advantages  [21:45] Skills to develop before management  [26:00] Results oriented work [30:45] Different flavors of management [32:50] Connection to community  [40:20] Learning to interact with stakeholders + managerial skills  [44:00] Benefits of building connections + education  [48:00] Assume people are at work with good intentions  [52:00] Allocate time for professional development  [59:30] Focus on retention Resources: Data Science Melbourne  MelbURN Yuval’s LinkedIn University of New South Wales Thank you to our sponsors:  UNSW Master of Data Science Online: studyonline.unsw.edu.au  Datasource Services: datasourceservices.com.au or email Will Howard on [email protected]  Fyrebox - Make Your Own Quiz! And as always, we appreciate your Reviews, Follows, Likes, Shares and Ratings. Thank you so much for listening. Enjoy the show!