Book Of The Future

In this episode of Future-Proof Your Career, we speak to Caroline Keep, a data scientist, a teacher, a maker, and a researcher in machine learning. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Times Education Supplement teacher award, and a founder of Liverpool Makerfest. We spoke to Caroline about how you extract meaning from data, and how we can all be more engaged in the effort to decipher the world around us. Here’s what we learned. Data is the real world, quantified Don’t think of data as just endless spreadsheets and numbers. It’s a representation of the real world and the things that matter. Understanding the data is a way to understand the world. Understanding data is a process Caroline talked about multiple steps in the ‘data cycle’: Start with discovery: play with the data at your disposal to get a feel for itCreate a hypothesis: what are you trying to test?Discuss your idea with other people and gather perspectives, check your reasoningClean your data: the real world is messy an