Data Science Pioneers: the Movie: How Data Scientists Are Powering the AI Revolution

I'm working at Dataiku, which is enabling companies of all kinds to walk on their Path to Enterprise AI. We’re working with more than 300 different companies on ambitious advanced analytics projects at the enterprise level and therefore talk with a lot of different people: data leaders, business leaders, data scientists... What struck us when we talked with them is how diverse the data scientist population of people is. Some are statisticians, some are advanced business analysts, they all work on very different use cases, in very different organizations, but at the same time, they all share 2 main things: the excitement of doing something new and perhaps crazy and a growing feeling of being accountable for their societal impact. So this unity and diversity struck us and we thought there was a good story to tell. We thought this story would appeal to every data scientist we know but could also gather the whole data science community to share common grounds. We decided to tell this story to show what it is really like to do data science on a daily basis. So we interviewed more than 30 data scientists in NYC, London, Amsterdam, Stuttgart and kept only the best. We almost got arrested in the Amsterdam airport, our team walked more than 10 miles a day in London to shoot B-roll footages, a snowstorm occurred in NYC while trying to have some proper shoots... It’s been a crazy ride that we can now share with you guys. We’ve done it with our hearts, experiences and also imperfections. Many times we thought it wouldn’t work and it seems we’ve been wrong. In this movie, you’ll hear more about data science, where it comes from, where it is going, what are its challenges. But ultimately, this journey is about the people that make it happen. We'd like you to take a good look at them, to realize how different or similar they are to you Let us know how you like it!