241: Data Science Science with Adam Ross Nelson Greater Than Code

01:25 - Teaching, Learning, and Education


06:16 - Becoming a Data Scientist



Opportunities to Create New Knowledge
Data Science Science


19:36 - Solving Bias in Data Science



Weapons of Math Destruction


23:36 - Recommendations for Aspiring Data Scientists



Hire a Career Coach
Creating and Maintaining a Portfolio
* Make a Rosetta Stone


Make a Cheat Sheet
Write an Article on a Piece of Software You Dislike


A Few Times, I’ve Broken Pandas
Kyle Kingsbury Posts

Contribute to Another Project


Post On Project Contribution


Spend $$$/Invest on Transition
Bet On Yourself


45:36 - Impostor Syndrome



Immunity Boosts


Community
Know Your Baseline


Clance Impostor Phenomenon Test
Dr. Pauline Rose Clance
The Imposter Phenomenon: An Internal Barrier To Empowerment and Achievement by Pauline Rose Clance and Maureen Ann O'Toole

Disseminate Knowledge

Confidence Leads to Confidence
Dunning-Kruger Effect
Johari Window


Reflections:


Mae: Checking out the metrics resources on Impostor Syndrome listed above.


Casey: Writing about software in a positive, constructive tone.


Mando: Investing in yourself. from:sheaserrano bet on yourself


Adam: Talking about career, data science, and programming in a non-technical way. Also, Twitter searches for book names!


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Transcript:


MANDO: Good afternoon, everyone! Welcome to Greater Than Code. This is Episode number 241. I'm Mando Escamilla and I'm here with my friend, Mae Beale.


MANDO: Hi, there! And I am also here with Casey Watts.


CASEY: Hi, I am Casey! And we're all here with Adam Ross Nelson, our guest today.


Welcome, Adam.


ADAM: Hi, everyone! Thank you so much for having me. I'm so glad to be here.


CASEY: Since 2020, Adam is a consultant who provides research, data science, machine learning, and data governance services. Previously, he was the inaugural data scientist at The Common Application which provides undergraduate college application platforms for institutions around the world. He holds a PhD from The University of Wisconsin: Madison in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis.


Adam is also formerly an attorney with a history of working in higher education, teaching all ages, and educational administration. He is passionate about connecting with other data professionals in-person and online. For more information and background look for his insights by connecting with Adam on LinkedIn, Medium, and other online platforms.


We are lucky we have him here today. So Adam, what is your superpower and how did you acquire it?


ADAM: I spent so much time thinking about this question, I really wasn't sure what to say. I hadn't thought about my superpower in a serious way in a very long time and I was tempted to go whimsy with this, but I got input from my crowd and my tribe and where I landed was teaching, learning, and education.


You might look at my background with a PhD in education, leadership, and policy analysis, all of my work in education administration, higher education administration, and teaching and just conclude that was how I acquired the superpower. But I think that superpower goes back much further and much deeper.


So when I was a kid, I was badly dyslexic. Imagine going through life and you can't even tell the difference between a lowercase B and a lowercase D. Indistinguishable to me. Also, I had trouble with left and right. I didn't know if someone told me turn left here, I'd be lucky to go – I had a 50/50 chance of going in the right direction, basically. Lowercase P and Q were difficult.


For this podcast, the greater than sign, I died in the ma