• Question: how did you learn all of this and what school did you go to become a scientist?

    Asked by 156utec37 to Alison on 18 Jun 2015.
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      Alison Whitaker answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      Well, I did a BSc and an MSc at University (BSc was at Salford University, and MSc at TrinityLaban), so I suppose that’s where I started properly studying science. The ‘data science’ work I do I’m mostly self-taught. I learnt statistics at University, but did lots for my own research. I didn’t like the systems I had available at University so I wrote my own analysis programmes, and some of my own methods too! This got me in to a job which looking at knowledge representation (a type of Artificial Intelligence) and then I moved on to what I’m doing now.

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