There’s more to data science than, well, data. To create an algorithm that takes into account happiness, you need data scientists who care about the impact their work has on the world. We spoke with Rachel Schutt, Managing Director, Data Science at BlackRock, about the balance between technicality and humanity that makes the data science team work.
How This Woman Finds Humanity in Data Science

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