893: How to Jumpstart Your Data Career (by Applying Like a Scientist), with Avery Smith

893: How to Jumpstart Your Data Career (by Applying Like a Scientist), with Avery Smith

Author: Jon Krohn June 3, 2025 Duration: 1:17:51
Avery Smith is a passionate and motivational YouTuber and careers educator for data science. In this episode, Jon Krohn asks Avery about the tools and tricks he has learned from personal experience and from his students in how to get ahead in the tech industry. Avery shares the “learning ladder” he uses to help newcomers start on the right foot with great examples from former bootcamp students who have put his theories into practice. And, if you’re using LinkedIn to find jobs, Avery explains why this might be one of the reasons you’re not getting work. Additional materials: ⁠www.superdatascience.com/893 This episode is brought to you by Adverity, the conversational analytics platform and by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (04:02) How to take the jump into a data science career (15:19) Avery’s recommended strategy for starting a career in data science (18:10) Recommendations for people learning data science with LLMs (32:52) What should go into a data science portfolio  (46:07) Why Avery prefers practice over theory in teaching data science  (48:25) The bare minimum to get your first job in data science

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974: When Will The AI Bubble Burst? How Bad Will It Be? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 13:56
In this week’s Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn holds the AI bubble up to the light. He points to the deep greyzone found in AI startups like Cluely that are established on dubious ideas (Cluely’s tagline was “cheat on ever…
973: AI Systems Performance Engineering, with Chris Fregly [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:12:10
No one should be manually writing code in 2026, thinks Chris Fregly, Jon Krohn’s guest on this week’s episode. In this interview about Chris’ latest book, AI Systems Performance Engineering, he explains why it’s so impor…
972: In Case You Missed It in February 2026 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:44
Jon Krohn recaps the month of February in this episode of In Case You Missed It. Across four interviews with Will Falcon (Episode 965), Tom Griffiths (Episode 969), Antje Barth (Episode 963), and Praveen Murugesan (Episo…
970: The “100x Engineer”: How to Be One, But Should You? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 14:37
Working with code-gen models and Claude Code: In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn addresses how AI superstars like Andrej Karpathy are using AI agents in their coding work, the outlook for code-gen in 2026, and how you…
968: Is AI Automating Away All Coding Jobs? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 14:56
Now that AI agents can develop new apps from product development to delivery, do AI developers have reason to worry about their careers? Podcast host Jon Krohn addresses the stark predictions that AI could “eliminate hal…
967: AI for the Physical World, with Samsara's Praveen Murugesan [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:10
VP of Engineering at Samsara Praveen Murugesan talks to Jon Krohn about processing 20 trillion data points covering 90 billion miles across private and public sectors, how the company helps truckers who operate long hour…