#111 - Jake Klamka and Kevin Hale

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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/jakeklamka">Jake Klamka</a> founded <a href="https://www.insightdatascience.com/">Insight</a>. Insight provides intensive 7 week professional training fellowships in fields such as data science and data engineering. Insight was in the YC Winter 2011 batch.<br><br><a href="https://twitter.com/ilikevests">Kevin Hale</a> is a Visiting Partner at YC. Before YC Kevin was the cofounder of Wufoo, which was funded by YC in 2006 and acquired by SurveyMonkey in 2011.<br><br>You can find Jake on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/jakeklamka">@jakeklamka</a> and Kevin at <a href="https://twitter.com/ilikevests">@ilikevests</a>.<br><br>The YC podcast is hosted by <a href="https://twitter.com/craigcannon">Craig Cannon</a>.<br><br>***<br><br><b>Topics</b><br><br>00:37 - Kevin's intro<br><br>01:07 - Jake's intro<br><br>1:42 - Applying to YC with one product then changing it<br><br>4:07 - How Insight started<br><br>4:57 - Jake's first students and initial coursework<br><br>8:37 - Finding out what companies want from data scientists<br><br>10:37 - Picking the first class of students<br><br>12:07 - Common pitfalls for people transitioning into data science<br><br>15:07 - Types of data science roles<br><br>17:22 - What data scientists should look out for in companies<br><br>18:17 - Chuck Grimmett asks - When do you know you need to bring in seasoned data scientists?<br><br>20:37 - How Insight has scaled and changed<br><br>22:37 - What happens in the program<br><br>23:57 - Examples of a good project for a data science resume<br><br>26:27 - Will more data scientists be founders in the future?<br><br>28:37 - Teaching product<br><br>29:37 - Cleaning data<br><br>32:07 - Tools for tracking data<br><br>32:57 - Track what are you trying to optimize<br><br>35:57 - Churn and conversion<br><br>39:37 - Is there an ideal background for a data scientist?<br><br>41:37 - Which startups recruit well at Insight?<br><br>43:37 - Contracting<br><br>46:17 - Fields Jake is excited about<br></p>