AI/ML IRL: What It's Like to Work as a Data Scientist

In this session, Dave Lemphers, CTO of AWS covered what it’s like to work as an Applied Data Scientist in the industry and discussed everything from coming up with good hunches, the tao of feature engineering, how to avoid model fixation, and the difference between thinking deterministically versus probabilistically. He covered the tool-chain pro data scientists use, what it is like to be embedded in a product team, and how to develop your career in one of the fastest growing technical disciplines.