Renée M. P. Teate is the Director of Data Science at HelioCampus, leading a team that builds predictive models for colleges and universities. She has worked with data professionally since 2004, in roles including relational database design, data-driven website development, data analysis and reporting, and data science. With degrees in Integrated Science and Technology from James Madison University and Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia, along with a varied career working with data at every stage in a number of systems, she considers herself to be a “data generalist”.
Renée regularly speaks at technology and higher ed conferences and meetups, and writes in industry publications about her data science work and about navigating data science career paths. She also created the “Becoming a Data Scientist” podcast and @BecomingDataSci twitter account, where she’s known to her over 60k followers as “Data Science Renee”. She always tells aspiring data scientists to learn SQL, since it has been one of the most valuable and enduring skills needed throughout her career.
