The path to data science
Alex Antic: How did you become a leader in the field of data science, and were there any pivotal moments, mentors, or people that inspired you?
Kshira Saagar: As one falls in love, I fell into the data science space. I did not actively pursue data science when I started. There was no such thing as data science back then. It used to be business analytics, data analytics, and stuff like that. If there is one inspiration that I would definitely put a finger on, it would be my high-school math teacher. It was the way he tried to teach us math when we were in our formative stages of trying to figure out what integral calculus is and how it even works! He taught it so beautifully and tried to explain it using physical concepts.
We had this one whole session on statistical distributions and hypothesis testing: he taught us how log-normal works and how to identify the distribution. The growth of hair is a log-normal distribution because it can only start from...