In this episode of The Outspoken Podcast, host Shana Cosgrove talks to Stephanie Beben, Chief Data Scientist at Nyla Technology Solutions. Stephanie talks about her journey from being a Music Industry Major to becoming a Data Scientist. She also touches on topics such as data stability, women in the industry, and her interest in the culture of her workplace.

QUOTES

• “Everything about data science is multidisciplinary.” – Stephanie Beben [11:17]
• “I’ve seen so much value over my experience to diverse teams and it’s more challenging and it takes more effort to include people with differing backgrounds and experiences and everything. But it brings out such a much more robust and well-thought-out and well-envisioned final product.“ – Stephanie Beben [40:26]
• “The career satisfaction of going to work and actually – what I’ll say – using your powers for good very generally because I think there’s a ton of fields out there that you can apply those skills to.” – Stephanie Beben [42:20]

TIMESTAMPS

• [00:04] Intro
• [01:35] Meet Stephanie Beben
• [02:36] Being A Chief Data Scientist at Nyla
• [04:22] Cyber Analytics
• [05:59] Where Does Cyber Data Come From?
• [08:20] Increasing Mobile Society
• [09:41] Data Stability
• [10:47] Professionally-Exciting Problems
• [11:55] Growing Up
• [14:51] Music
• [16:33] University Experience
• [24:31] NSA Internship and Development Programs
• [27:37] Women in Computer Science and Data Science
• [31:02] Data Scientist Label
• [32:38] Training
• [33:30] Coming to Nyla
• [35:30] Nyla’s Culture and Inclusivity
• [41:58] Stephanie’s Advice
• [42:52] Stephanie’s Favorite Book
• [44:12] Unknown Fact about Stephanie
• [46:01] Outro

RESOURCES

• Northeastern University
• Quinnipiac University
• Department of Defense
• Java
• Penn State University
• Texas A&M University
• NSA
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• Silo Series by Hugh Howey
• Maestro by Roger Nierenberg

RELEVANT LINKS

• Nyla Technology Solutions
• Stephanie Beben on LinkedIn