Always asking why as she mines data

16 October 2016 - 02:00
By MARGARET HARRIS

Megan Yates is the founder and chief scientist of data-led modelling and analytics company Ixio Analytics. She tells Margaret Harris that she enjoys being able to get to grips with and solve problems You are both a data scientist and an evolutionary biologist - tell me what these entail.A data scientist processes large amounts of data - from various sources and in diverse forms - to discover insights that drive future actions.

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