Episode 102: [Value Boost] How Giving Away Your Work for Free Can Build Your Authority as a Data Scientist

About this episode

In this episode, Prof. Rob Hyndman discusses how giving away work for free can enhance authority in the data science field.

Building authority as a data professional doesn't require a large budget, a publisher, or even a large audience. But it does require a deliberate decision to share your thinking with the world and the patience to let that compound over time. In this Value Boost episode, Prof. Rob Hyndman joins Dr. Genevieve Hayes to share how selectively giving away his work for free helped him become one of the most cited and influential statisticians in the world, and what data professionals at any stage of their career can learn from that approach. In this episode, you'll discover: Why Rob decided to give away his work for free from the start of his career [01:42] How open source software multiplied the impact of his research [05:58] Why authority building is a virtuous cycle and how to start it [09:47] Why starting small is the right move [10:35] Guest Bio Prof. Rob Hyndman is one of the world’s most influential applied statisticians and a Professor in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University. He has maintained an active statistical consulting practice for over 40 years, published over 200 research papers, co-authored more than 65 R packages and written five…

People in this episode

Host: Dr Genevieve Hayes

Guest: Prof. Rob Hyndman

Topics covered

• authority building
• data science
• open source
• career development
• statistical consulting

Keywords

• data professional
• open source software
• impact of research
• virtous cycle
• time series forecasting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Monash University, Australian Academy of Science, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

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