Eric Lecoutre, Welovedatascience

"Am I a statistician, data miner, data scientist or analyst?"

Abstract:

This talk is given in the context of the 25 year anniversary of the statistical consulting course at UCLouvain.

Eric Lecoutre attended this course in the academic year 1999/2000 and has since then explored many aspects of life as a professional in the data sector. He started his career as statistical and computing consultant at the Institut de Statistique at UCLouvain, contributed important R packages including R2HTML, went to work for the company Business and Decision, contributed to the Data Science Hub in Brussels, and founded his own company WeLoveDataScience.
In his talk, he will retrace important steps in his professional journey and point out what may be important for statisticians and data scientists who are entering the market of jobs and opportunities of the data world around Brussels and Louvain-la-Neuve. This will include an analysis of the bewildering variety of profiles published in job adds, a discussion of roles of R and Python as programming languages in the data field, and anecdotes of the joys and frustrations in his career.
Note: Since this talk may draw a larger audience, it will probably take place in the lecture hall Barb 91 but please check the location a few days before the seminar. There will be (limited) remote access via Teams.

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