Meet 2024 Bigdatawire Person To Watch Chisoo Lyons
BigDATAwire, Friday, November 22nd, 2024
Women make up 15% to 22% of data science professionals, research from the Boston Consulting Group shows. One of the women who is hoping to increase that number is Chisoo Lyons, the executive director of Women in Data Science Worldwide (WiDS) and a BigDATAwire 2024 Person to Watch.
WiDS started in 2015 with a one-day technical conference at Stanford University to give women a voice in data science. Since then, the group has expanded significantly, and it now touches more than 150,000 participants across 160 countries via conferences, datathons, podcasts, upskilling workshops, its Next Gen outreach program, the WiDS Academy, and the UpLink platform.
The group's goal is achieve 30% representation for women in data science by 2030, which it refers to as its 30x30 cause. Leading the group to that goal is the job of WiDS Executive Director Lyons, who recently spent time to answer some questions.