Career

## My goal is to solve societally relevant problems using data and computational statistics

My ideal role is as a Data Scientist or Data Science type person. I want to:

• be meaningfully involved in data analysis.
• apply modelling techniques to derive insights from data.
• engage others to get them excited about these insights.

My ideal company:

• Works with lots of different datasets addressing a variety of problems.
• Has a strong focus on lifelong learning and continous improvement.
• Has a focus on delivering impact and improving people’s lives.
• Is filled with people who are constantly striving to be better.

Jobs I would love to do:

• Working for an organisation that uses data to improve responses to and forecasting of natural disasters.
• Working for a company looking at using Earth Observation data for mapping and monitoring of social deprivation, water and food security and the spread of disease.
• Working with a Data Science consultancy firm who are approached with interesting datasets and problems and are tasked with finding actionable insights from those datasets.
• Work on political polling or sports analytics.

After viewing the play Hamilton, I left thinking ‘Hamilton had the American Revolution. What is my American Revolution?’. I believe the most pressing issue of our times is climate change. It is a global issue that interacts with all other issues, whether they are inequality or lack of access to education, sanitation and other human rights.