Data
Pivoting Into a Career in Data Science
Join us as we demystify the world of Data Science.
Nick Malcolm Preston
Data scientist, Federal government, formerly Meta/Facebook
Australia
Nick is a data science leader specialising in product analytics and strategy. He is currently working on technology/data capability in the federal government. He has been a Staff Data Scientist and Data Science Manager at Meta/Facebook in the US where he worked on the company's integrity problems such as hate speech, misinformation, etc. He led much of the company's election integrity data science work in the lead up to the 2020 US election.
Nick made his way into a data science career by way of a stint in strategy consulting after studying Mathematics, Actuarial Studies and Finance at the ANU.
Fun fact: while Nick loves to nerd out on ML problems, he often finds himself as an ML critic in practice - shooting down ML proposals when simpler solutions exist, or identifying statistical flaws in the application or evaluation of models."
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