Emily Robinson

Emily Robinson is a brilliant senior data scientist at Warby Parker and previously worked at DataCamp and Etsy.

I first met Emily at Data Day Texas 2018, when she was one of the few people who attended my talk on data science in industry. At the end of my speech, she shot her hand up and asked a great question. To my surprise, an hour later we had swapped; I was watching her calmly and casually give a great presentation while I was eagerly waiting to raise my hand and ask her a question. That day, I knew she was a hard-working and clever data scientist. A few months later, when it came time for me to find someone to co-author a book, she was at the top of my list. When I sent her the email asking whether she would be interested, I figured that there was a good chance she would say no; she was probably out of my league.

Working with Emily on this book has been a joy. She is deeply thoughtful about the struggles of junior data scientists and has the ability to clearly understand what is important. She is constantly getting her work done and somehow also is able to squeeze out extra blog posts while doing it. Now having seen her at more conferences and social events, I’ve watched as she’s talked to many data scientists and made all of them feel comfortable and welcome. She’s also an expert in A/B testing and experimentation, but it’s clear that this just happens to be the area she’s working in at the moment; she could pick up any other part of data science and be an expert in that if she wanted to.

My only disappointment is that I’m writing these words about her at the end of creating the book, and with us finishing, someone besides me will have the next opportunity to collaborate with her.