The SSA's ECSSN and NZSA present their November webinar: From Student to Data Professional: Keys to Success in Australasian Data Industry
"In our fast-paced world, keeping up to date with the latest trends in data is crucial. In this panel, our data experts will spotlight why this matters and how students and early career analysts can help. With their range of backgrounds across the public and private sectors, they'll touch on challenges faced with data literacy, technology, mentoring, pushing for training, teamwork, and data handling. The goal? To prepare individuals joining the Australasian data industry with the tools to succeed in helping businesses, organisations, and governments make smart, data-led decisions.
So, if you're a student or early on in your analytics career, tune in. Get involved, teach the teachers, and find out how to make a difference from the beginning of your journey in the data industry."
Presenters:
Name: Oliver Stevenson
Ollie currently works as a Data Science Manager at Luma Analytics, a Data & Analytics consulting firm based in Auckland, NZ. Prior to joining Luma Analytics, Ollie completed a PhD in Statistics at the University of Auckland, as well as working as a data consultant in a wide variety of fields, including sports analytics, market research, clinical trials, and financial services. With both practical and academic backgrounds, Ollie has first-hand experience in making the transition from academia to the rapidly evolving data science industry.
Name: Lillian Lu
Lillian is a senior data analyst in the New Zealand public sector. With experience in various government organisations, she has worked with health, environment, and tourism datasets. Coming from a marketing background, Lillian is passionate about data communications. She is also a keen developer of Shiny, a web application framework that allows data scientists or analysts to achieve an end-to-end analytics workflow within R or Python.
Name: Charmaine McGowan
Charmaine McGowan is a data professional with over 15 years’ experience
working across government and industry. She has lived and worked in
Australia and the United Kingdom building her expertise.
Charmaine is a change champion, increasing diversity in digital and data
careers and strives to make a beneficial impact in her advocacy work.
As a co-executive member of the non-profit organisation, Women in Big Data,
Charmaine is empowering women to connect, engage and grow across the
community.
Charmaine also hosts ‘The Women Count Podcast Show’, inspiring female
data professionals and leaders to increase diversity in this industry, leading
the future of digital and data.
As a wife and mother of two, Charmaine is a lifelong learner and believes her
boys and husband are great reflectors and teach her everything about herself,
the good the bad and the ugly. Silently she’s creating a spreadsheet for this!
Name:Jonathan Blanchard
Jonathan Blanchard studied mathematics and statistics at Curtin University in WA with a major in Applied Mathematics. He never wanted to work in statistics, but his first job was with the Australian Bureau of Statistics, before working in a number of different government departments in various roles both as a data scientist and as a statistician. As well as working for the public service, he’s also a pastor of a local church (also something he never expected to do). Apart from work, Jonathan wastes time running, playing touch footy, watching too much sport and playing board games.
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