10: Mohammad Elteibi – Learn something

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10: Mohammad Elteibi - Learn something

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Mohammad Elteibi leads a small team who are playing with some lovely data.

Here’s his Linked in profile.

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He talks about how much he likes to learn to do something that he hasn’t done before. And some of these things:

working with teams – need to have an outcome focus
analytics for the sake of analytics – there’s no point
building on top of other people’s work, not starting from scratch
creating psychological safety (see my blog posts here)
the power of food to build team
working in a multi-cultural team
analytics can be isolating: it’s not always a collaborative thing
having KPIs that include having new ideas
his path from food technologist to data analyst team leader
why the worst data scientists are the ones who think they know everything: the best ones challenge themselves to do better, know context and to work with stakeholders
his own learning projects, including building his own computer and media server
why he prefers online conferences
the importance of understanding a team’s frustrations

Recruitment strategies

Mohammad looks for these things when recruiting:

technical ability is a given
are you able to learn?
what was the last thing you learnt?
second round interviews are a project you need to undertake: it’s not just about can you do the analysis, but also how you think about the customer’s request
can you think outside the box, can you work without asking questions every second

References

PCYC North Sydney is his favourite: here’s the charity challenge he got hit for!

Here’s Dan Ariely, psychologist, behavioural economist, researcher talking about how we value things we have made over things other have made (even when ours are not as good).

Conferences

Mohammad recommended these online resources:

AI Machine Learning re: invent
Short python newsletter
KDnuggets on machine learning
Dataone
Some youtube playlists he recommends: Programming with Python, Django Tutorials, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, Google Tech Talks, Siraj Raval on Machine Learning and such