Machine learning in cybersecurity, computer vision in sports, from business analyst to ML engineer - Betty Zhang - The Data Scientist Show #072

Betty Zhang is a data scientist currently working at a cloud security company, previously she was a data scientist at Amazon Web Services. Today we’ll talk about her computer vision projects in Sports, data science use cases in cyber security, from business major to data scientist, what’s her experience working in startups vs big tech companies. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com for more on data science and career.

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(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:01:21) Computer Vision Project in Sports at AWS

(00:12:28) Challenges in computer vision

(00:14:02) Time allocation for ML projects

(00:15:22) 3 key skills for computer vision

(00:17:20) From business analyst to ML engineer

(00:18:14) How she got her data scientist job through Linkedin

(00:21:32) How she got into Amazon

(00:22:17) Three tech skills needed during Amazon interviews

(00:26:11) Why she joined a Cyber Security startup

(00:27:22) Three cybersecurity use cases

(00:29:47) Anomaly detection

(00:30:40) ML for cybersecurity

(00:34:43) Tech stacks Amazon vs Startups

(00:39:35) Startups vs big tech

(00:45:56) Balance learning and impact

(00:48:35) Advice for new data scientists