Education
University of Rochester
B.A., B.S., Mechanical Engineering/European History
2010UC Berkeley School of Information
Master's, Information and Data Science
2016Podcasts
34:0482: What a Data Scientist Is & Does In The Social Sector w/ Nick Hamlin, GlobalGiving [Main T4C episode]
Data Scientist Nick Hamlin uses statistics and programming, along with his own curious brain, to ask and answer intriguing questions in the non-profit or social sector at GlobalGiving. Under the slogan: “Donate to charity and see your impact with regular updates,” GlobalGiving has become the largest crowdfunding community in the..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“A data scientist has to be a better computer programmer than your typical statistician, and they have to be a better statistician than your typical computer programmer.”
Best Career Advice
“There’s no playbook for this kind of thing. And I think it’s easy to assume that there is when you talk to people who have been doing it for a long time, but my first boss told me, no, we really are all figuring this out the same way you are.”
Career Challenge
” I had just come off this undergrad career where I had been really busy and doing a bunch of stuff. I’m like, I’m working really hard, I should be able to get a job. It was really difficult. And I struggled with that a lot, but I think the thing that got me through is you just have to keep grinding, even if you’re not sure where the release from that is going to come, it will come if you keep grinding.”
Skills
Leadership, Analysis, Data Analysis, Research, Statistics, Nonprofits, Data Science, Business Intelligence, Project Management, Web Analytics, Agile Methodologies, Python, Public Speaking, Web Scraping
Professional Interests
DJ Patil, Jim Yong Kim, Dan Ariely, University of Rochester, Games Workshop Ltd, GlobalGiving, GlobalGiving Alumni, Digital Impact Community, Apache Spark, UC Berkeley School of Information
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