National Speaker Series Hosted by Vic & Tas Branch: Data-Driven Insights: How Data Science Shapes Feature Development at Canva

The Statistical Society of Australia's branches have come together to launch the National Branch Lecture Series, bringing you insightful talks from experts across the country. Each month, a different branch will host a webinar, showcasing diverse topics in statistics and data science. We’re excited to invite you to this month’s session, hosted by the Vic & Tas Branch.

In this talk, Sarah Hunt will give a short overview of her transition from academic research to industry data science. She will then discuss her day-to-day work supporting data-driven decisions at Canva, focusing on an example of how we typically use experimentation and handle its limitations.

Bio: Sarah Hunt, Data Scientist at Canva.

Sarah is a data scientist at Canva where she currently supports analysis and experimentation for search. She has also worked as a data scientist at David Jones and Atlassian. In a past life she was a neuroscientist working on the human brain

Key takeaways: Understand the kind of work done by a data scientist in a company.

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