How I wound up being a Quantitative UX Researcher

Randy Au
Towards Data Science
6 min readMar 5, 2019

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Not exactly Data Scientist, but close enough you can barely tell the difference. It’s a fairly obscure position. This is, in broad strokes, how I wound up where I am in the data world. Current as of Q1 2019, no idea what the future will bring.

Out of the myriad ways of coming to wear a “data scientist” hat, I firmly came down the “data analyst” side of things. I also fell into this during the era when DS as a field was being forged, so the bar of entry is massively different from where it is today. But who knows, someone out there might find my…

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I stress about data quality a lot. Data nerd/scientist, camera junkie. Quant UXR @Google Cloud. Formerly @bitly, @Meetup, @primarydotcom. Opinions are my own.