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Lisa Cohen
Lisa Cohen's DataTalks.Club podcast discussions, organized for topic exploration.
Lisa Cohen
Background
Lisa Cohen is a Director of Data Science for Twitter. She leads an organization of 70 data scientists, focused on driving the strategy and direction of the Twitter product. Her team uses machine learning, experimentation and causal analyses, and partners closely with Engineering, Product, Design and Research. Before Twitter, Lisa led the Azure Customer Growth Analytics organization as part of Microsoft Cloud Data sciences. Her team was responsible for analyzing OKRs, informing data-driven decisions, and developing data science models to help customers be successful on Azure. Lisa worked at Microsoft for 17yrs, and also helped develop multiple versions of Visual Studio. She holds Bachelor.
Podcast Discussions
- Designing High-Impact Data Science Teams: Centralized vs Embedded Models, Experimentation & Staffing. Discussed: Guest Introduction: Lisa Cohen, Director of Data Science at Twitter; Career Background: Applied Math, Microsoft telemetry, Azure to Twitter; Org Models Overview: Centralized vs decentralized data science organization; Embedding Explained: Reporting lines vs day-to-day integration with feature. Related topics: data science, data teams, leadership, machine learning.