Season 1 Episode 2 — Giulia Fragnito (data scientist at Yego — electric scooter sharing startup)
Email 📩: giulia.fragnito@gmail.com
Yego Website: https://www.getyugo.com/barcelona
Listen to Giulia’s journey from mathematics undergrad to data scientist at Barcelona-based startup, Yego! 🛵
Show Notes
A chronological overview of the episode:
1:00 — Overview of her journey
4:00 — How she ended up studying a bachelors in mathematics 🎓
10:00 — Her gap year and the decision to do the masters degree 🇬🇧
15:00 — About her master’s and her affinity for coding 💻
16:00 — The Erasmus year abroad in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 and more coding 💻
17:00 — The south calling and decision to move to BCN for masters thesis 📄
21:00 — Arriving in Barcelona ☀️
23:00 — Her thesis → linking mathematics to human behaviour (game theory)
25:00 — Post-masters decision to stay in BCN to work 💼
26:00 — How she ended up at Yego! 🛵
29:00 — Using Kaggle to train and develop her skills pre-Yego
32:30 — Starting out at Yego
35:30 — The very first Yego Awards event
38:00 — The Yego Scooter Relocation Project
43:00 — More funny Yego Awards Categories
46:00 — Her explanation about why she says: “Mathematics is a link between unintelligible and feasible, rather than a mere abstract science”
49:30 — On what she values most in her work
52:00 — On irrational user behaviour observed in the data
53:30 — What she find most interesting about tech
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