1 – Seth Gregg – Applied Data Science as a Career

Seth Gregg is an Innovation Engineer, Emerging Technologies at Ball Corporation. He is a strategy-oriented Innovation Engineer striving to build tools that enable process improvement through reduced spoilage, and increased asset utilization.

Seth first shares his story about how he has made the career shift from a controls engineer to applied data science. He offers some very sound advice for those thinking about making data science a career.

We then shift to a discussion about what goes into making aluminum cans, it is way more than you think. We talk about how an established industry is making a shift to using data and machine learning to improve their manufacturing process. Many challenges are involved, both with the technology and the culture. Seth share where he starts and what he plans on doing.

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