Can you name 10 famous data scientist women?
And their contributions. I'd like to write an article about them. All the articles I read about "top data scientists" are all about men.
Thanks a lot!
Amy
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Permalink Reply by Vered Madar on -
Gertrude Cox - design of experiments (see http://www.uncg.edu/mat/nc-asa/gcox.pdf)
Julie Shaffer - Multiple Comparisons (http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/juliet-shaffer)
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Permalink Reply by Randy Bartlett on
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Oh, I so wanted to be the first to mention Gertrude Cox. She was a statistician and would not call by data scientist. When Snedecor was asked for recommendations of men, who could build the, now famous, Dept of Stat. at N C State, he scribbled in the margins that if they would consider a woman, he would whole-heartedly recommend Gertrude Cox. The rest is history. In addition to her great technical contributions, she recruited Hoteling for the Dept of Stat at U of NC; she helped build the Research Triangle Institute, she recruited the head for the Biostat Dept. at U of NC; she was a president of ASA; et al. She was tireless and played a role in the formation of the fields of statistics and biostatistics. There is even a 5K race in her honor. Including her is no brainer.
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Permalink Reply by Ella Revzin on -
Is a statistics professor a data scientist (its like comparing a theoretical physicist to an engineer)? Not sure about that, but when I think of a statistics professor whose work has direct application to data science, Grace Wahba from UWisconsin is #1 in my mind. She is an amazing mathematician and statistician whose done extensive work in spline smoothing, reproducting kernel hilbert spaces (the basis of SVMs), time series, you name it.
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Permalink Reply by Vladimir Ryzhov on
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Hi Amy,
Do statisticians qualify? Then I would vote for Florence Nightingale, the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society and a honorary member of ASA, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale
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Permalink Reply by Salvatore Polizzi McDonagh on -
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace - funded development of the first programmable computer, wrote software for it in advance of it's manufacture. Ahead of the technology of the times unfortunately, otherwise imagine where we would be now?
Florence Nightingale - statistician whose metrics and graphs greatly influenced medical care
Elizebeth Friedman - codebreaker
Grace Hopper - saw computers as more than calculators, wrote first computer programs that were executed
Hilary Mason - bit.ly chief scientist. Data science advocate, educator.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Kotanchek on -
Katya Vladislavleva (www.vanillamodeling.com) is probably worth a mention. In addition to being one of my partners in Evolved Analytics LLC (www.evolved-analytics.com) she is a well-known contributor and organizer in the symbolic regression and evolutionary computing communities with a special focus on the analysis and modeling technologies required for industrial and real-world data.
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Permalink Reply by Gregory Piatetsky on -
Here are some current data scientist researchers - Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist of bit.ly; Piyanka Jain - data science trainer, president of Aryng Analytics.
Corinna Cortes - a top researcher at Google, Claudia Perlich - winner of multple KDD competitions, Sunita Sarawagi, Director SIGKDD , Kristin Bennett, Chair, KDD-2005 conference
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Permalink Reply by Joshua Kitlas on -
I am a masters student at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University where we recently launched the first Data Science certificate program. Women in Data Science is a crucial part of program plan and we are regularly strategizing how to bring more women into both the Data Science field and STEM in general.
Here is sampling of women on our list that are major players in the Big Data / Data Science space:
- Annika Jimenez Senior Director, Analytics Solutions at Greenplum
- Elissa Fink Chief Marketing Officer at Tableau Software
- Monica Rogati Senior Data Scientist at LinkedIn
- Julie Steele Content Editor at O'Reilly Media and Chair of Strata Rx
- Leila Janah Founder and CEO at Samasource
- Piyanka Jain CEO of Aryng ( analytics training company)
- Rachel Sterne Chief Digital Officer at City of New York
- Rebecca L. Shapley User Experience Researcher at Google
- Sarah Novotny mCIO at Meteor Entertainment
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Permalink Reply by Xue Yao on -
This is an interesting article for me. I am a student right now and want to be a data scientist in the future. So I am interested in the stories of female data scientist. Look forward to your article :)
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Permalink Reply by Gregory Piatetsky on
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See also my write-up on Women in Analytics, Data Science, Data Mining -
http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/06/women-data-scientists-data-miners....
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Permalink Reply by Vikram Jha on -
claudia persich..:)
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