Season 2| Episode 1| Quarter 1, 2023
Nicole Janeway- Bills on the current Trends in Data Management and the study approach for Data Certifications
Episode summary:
In this episode, the host Nupur Gandhi is joined by the smart and the soft spoken 'Nicole Janeway Bills', a young and insightful data-preneur and a founder of the Data Strategy Professionals.com. Nicole elaborates on her interesting career journey from a Data Consultant to a Data Scientist and ultimately as a Data Strategist. She is very candid and authentic in acknowledging her various life experiences that prompted her to reach for her passion and take an unconventional career path of being a full-time 'Community Organizer' with 2000+ members, at a very young age.
An ardent believer in the 'Power of a Community', Nicole has used many of her prior roles in data to create multiple initiatives for improving the understanding of data management concepts, simplifying some complex data trends and bringing together' data enthusiasts' from various facets and domains.
Additionally, Nicole shares the importance of study plans and CDMP exams and shares her vision of being a single trusted provider for any major data related certification.
You will enjoy her insights and her unconventional take on 'All things data' and life in general.
You will be also be amazed by her drive for researching current data management trends and studying complex and topics such as: data labelling for the machine learning and AI research community, increasing trend towards data sharing agreements, Impact of data privacy regulation, the global standards for privacy, federal policy on data privacy, rise of large language models, Importance of cloud and Multi-cloud deployment.
Do not miss her tips for an aspiring data enthusiast as well as for aspiring entrepreneur towards the end of the episode.
Key Takeaways:
- Tools are getting better but the basic core principles of data management aren't changing.
- What you need for a good data governance program is pretty resistant to the ever-changing, ever improving relentless march of progress in
technology. Same thing like data quality.
More about the guest, Nicole Janeway Bills:
Nicole offers a proven track record of applying Data Strategy and related disciplines to solve clients’ most pressing challenges. She has
worked as a Data Scientist and Project Manager for federal and commercial consulting teams Nicole is a Founder of datastrategypros.com where she helps busy professionals ace the Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) exam.
Nicole has written 35+ Medium articles, mostly for Towards Data Science. Her business experience includes natural language processing, cloud computing,
statistical testing, pricing analysis, ETL processes, and web and application development.
DAMA New England is an educational and networking resource for the data management community. And this
podcast is DAMA New England’s 1st initiative.
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Episode Notes:
Feel free to tap into any of Nicole's initiatives:
- Website: Data Strategy Professionals (datastrategypros.com)
- 35 Articles on Medium: About – Nicole Janeway Bills – Medium
- Join Nicole's Study Group Sessions on Facebook: CDMP Study Group | Facebook
- Nicole's articles on Medium, geared towards: Open Source Data Science Masters Study Group | Facebook
