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Nadia De Beers

Data Scientist at NurtureCloud in Sydney, Australia, and community builder for the Sydney data scene; guest on The 20 Minute Career discussing what data science actually involves.

Sep 15, 2026

The 20 Minute Career

The 20 Minute Career

What Does a Data Scientist Actually Do? It's Not just Maths and Data

Sep 15 · 20m

Jane ButlerHOST
1:34
It's an absolutely growing field.
Nadia De BeersGUEST
1:36
What is it that you do day-to-day in a data science role? Yes.
Nadia De BeersGUEST
1:40
So I will preface by saying that I do work at a startup.
Nadia De BeersGUEST
1:43
So I'm in a team of two.
Nadia De BeersGUEST
1:45
So what I get up to is very broad, maybe compared to the average data scientist, but my work does encompass that as well.
Nadia De BeersGUEST
1:54
So when I say that, I also do a bit of data engineering and a bit of data analytics, and I can try to categorize them.
Nadia De BeersGUEST
2:00
There's a lot of overlap.

8 MINS LATER

Jane ButlerHOST
9:32
How are you or how is AI working with the role in which you're undertaking right now?

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