Communicating As A Data Scientist
Wow, this has been a crazy week here in the San Francisco Bay Area! If a pandemic wasn’t enough, we now have over 300 fires burning in the area as a result of an unusual summer thunderstorm accompanied by lightning strikes. It’s one of the aspects of climate change - that weather becomes more extreme. So, the western US and Australia as well as other areas see less precipitation, or precipitation that is unusual in amounts and timing, warmer temperatures. Thus, drier, warmer conditions that are ideal for these kind of extreme events become more prevalent - and hence, more disasters. As professionals working in clean technology, we often get tasked with building the models for these systems, understanding what’s happening on the ground and developing new technologies to help solve these problems. The one thing that many of us don’t really explore is the whole aspect of communicating the science and what the data are telling us. This aspect often gets relegated to science