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Girls Into Coding – Addressing inequality in data and nurturing new talent
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Girls Into Coding – Addressing inequality in data and nurturing new talent

Girls Into Coding is a social enterprise determined to improve the gender imbalance in the tech space, challenge stereotypes and engage with underprivileged girls to develop new skills.
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Women in data – more needs to be done for STEM equality
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Women in data – more needs to be done for STEM equality

While the number of women in STEM fields is growing, the number of women in senior positions is half that of men, and the solution starts with education.
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Lyndsay Weir – Keeping quiet as a female leader
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Lyndsay Weir – Keeping quiet as a female leader

Lyndsay Weir is global data and analytics manager at Nestlé. At the Women in Data conference in November, she was named as one of the new list of female industry role models, the 20 in Data and Tech. She told DataIQ how being a female leader and role model can be done in a quiet way.
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Women in Data – more pay, more balance, more to do
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Women in Data – more pay, more balance, more to do

Since launching in 2015, Women in Data has seen its community and conference audiences grow significantly. On the eve of the fifth event, its co-founders told David Reed why, despite an active and growing cohort of female data practitioners, there is still such a long way to go - and therefore a need for the network.
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How studying politics led to a career in data
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How studying politics led to a career in data

Many of the people who work in data have a background in STEM subjects but equally the study of arts and humanities can form a strong basis for a career in analytics. Tess Merkulova tells Toni Sekinah why it is important to her as a data professional to pay very close attention to detail, and what are the similarities between data and comparative politics, which she studied to degree level.
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