My Career in Data Season 4 Episode 06: Duru Ahanotu, PhD, Sole Proprietor, Ahan Analytics

About this episode

Duru Ahanotu shares his journey from aspiring scientist to data management professional.

Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Duru Ahanotu, PhD, Sole Proprietor , Ahan Analytics. At six years old, he dreamed of becoming a scientist solving big problems, never imagining he'd spend his career doing data management, sometimes without even realizing it until later. After earning his PhD at Stanford working with exper...

People in this episode

Guest: Duru Ahanotu

Topics covered

• data management
• career development
• analytics
• science
• PhD journey

Keywords

• data
• analytics
• career
• PhD
• Ahan Analytics
• Stanford
• data management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ahan Analytics, Stanford

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