Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Laura Gabrysiak is a senior manager of data products and solutions at Visa. Previously, she's a data scientist, building machine learning models and decision tools to enable Visa clients. She has a college degree in computational and linguistics and has masters in design thinking. She's building the local data science community in Miami, and a co-founder of our Ladies. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on dalianaliu.com for more on data science.

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0:00 Intro
00:02:43 her journey into data science
00:06:36 user-centric technology
00:16:14 language models
00:20:28 anecdotes vs big data
00:27:05 the power of small data
00:30:41 design thinking key elements
00:42:30 biggest challenge when she worked for Visa
00:47:25 mindset shift from a user researcher to a data scientist
01:00:51 how to improve customer engagement
01:02:10 how to make data visualization effective
01:11:10 leverage the information asymmetry when design your UI
01:27:21 mindset shift from an individual contributor to a manager
01:40:43 advices for people who are on PIP
01:47:35 advices and inspirations she had from her mentor