Eugene Yan shares his journey from a Psychology degree to leading data science at Lazada, covering career transitions, leadership lessons, agile/scrum practices for data science teams, ML in production (product ranking, recommender systems), and the Alibaba-Lazada platform migration. He discusses how to give effective data science talks, the value of working backwards from customer problems, and recommends books like Introduction to Statistical Learning and The Pragmatic Programmer for junior data scientists.
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Why did you join Lazada?How did you join Lazada?Could you share about your journey from Psychology into Data Science?You speak at conferences/meetups. Could you share some tips with listeners?What are some lessons from your transition from IC into leadership?What were the challenges faced during the Alibaba acquisition of Lazada?Could you share about the keynote you gave OLX?You come across as a DS x Agile evangelist. Could you share more about it?Could you share about your talk on “How Lazada Ranks Products”?You wrote about building a product classifier app—could you share more?Three people in data science whose work you admire?Can you recommend a book for data scientists?What’s the one thing that you would share with all data scientists?1 Impression