Celebrating our third anniversary of Data Science at Microsoft
One of the things I’ve come to look forward to in the new year is writing a brief article commemorating a new anniversary for the Data Science at Microsoft online publication that you’re reading now. DS@M, as we refer to it internally, is three years old on January 9.
I’ve written for past DS@M anniversary articles about how gratifying it’s been to play a part in founding and developing this online publication, going from our small beginnings to where we are today as we rapidly approach 150 articles published from Microsoft data scientists and related professionals for other data scientists, decision-makers, customers, partners, and students. With 3,500 followers, I think — I hope — that we’ve shown that we have something relevant and meaningful to contribute to the ongoing dialog in the data science community.
This year, we’ve continued to expand our partnership with data scientists on a variety of teams throughout Microsoft, who’ve written on topics spanning how to get data science work done to advanced data science techniques — and everything in between!
It’s particularly gratifying to write about our journey this year as I welcome my Microsoft colleague, Riesling Walker, who joins me in running DS@M. Riesling is a Senior Data & Applied Scientist who has been a co-worker for most of the last year, and whom some of you might know as Riesling Meyer — in addition to all she’s been doing at Microsoft, she was married this autumn! Besides her data science “day job,” she’s stepped up in a tremendous way to add her voice to our data science narrative on DS@M. As part of this, she wrote our most-read article in 2022, on writing a resume for a data science role, a fine piece I recommend that everyone read. We are so happy to have you with us, Riesling!
Riesling is one among many data science professionals across Microsoft whose work contributing articles based on their hard-won expertise has formed the backbone of Data Science at Microsoft. My deep thanks to all of our many contributors, both current and past, who’ve helped get us to where we are today! And my thanks to you, our dear readers, for whom we present this work in the hope that we are advancing the state of the art in our data science community by describing the work we do on behalf of our customers, partners, and stakeholders to improve Microsoft products, services, and the materials that help users learn more about them.
Here’s to a great 2023 for all of us!
Casey Doyle is on LinkedIn.
