{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5fda353b5f9eb72404a5200f/68ee73a906cd1a7c2398eae5?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"0258 - Combining Business AND Technical Knowledge with Jane Antova","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5fda353b5f9eb72404a5200f/1760457632279-a431ecf4-2631-4af5-a371-15c6d0b9c440.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Our hosts for this episode are William Mugan and Grace Gunne from the BSc UCD Economics and Finance class.</p><p>Today, we are very pleased to welcome Jane Antova from IBM&nbsp;Consulting and colleagues Angela Stakelum and Bernadette Keating.</p><p>First, Jane, can you share a little of your own story and starting out in IBM?</p><p>So, what does a day in the life look like?&nbsp;</p><p>These days, do you find yourself needing more, or less interaction with technology specialists to get the job done?&nbsp;</p><p>Can you talk about typical sources of information and scale or size of datasets?</p><p>Can you talk about the tools used for modelling, economic simulations, machine learning, and use of AI?</p><p>Do you think that programming skills necessary or nice-to-have?</p><p>We have some time for questions from the audience…</p><p>Before we finish, is there anything further you'd like to add? (favourite pods, blogs, channels, books)</p><p>Thank you so much for your time and for sharing your thoughts with us today.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Notes, extra questions, and further reading:</strong></p><p>IBM Skills Build -&nbsp;<a href=\"https://skillsbuild.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://skillsbuild.org</a>&nbsp;(free learning courses and resources)</p><p>PL/I –&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-basic-skills?topic=zos-pli\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Programming Language One</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Acknowledgements</strong></p><p>Music&nbsp;</p><p>Title: First Take</p><p>Artist: Debajyoti Biswas and Michael O'Neill</p><p>Source:&nbsp;&nbsp;mis.aup3</p><p>License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</p><p><br></p><p>Cover Art&nbsp;</p><p>Title: Complex collage</p><p>Artist: Allen Higgins</p><p>Source: JaneAntova-IBM.pptx</p><p>License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</p><p><br></p><p>Podcast License</p><p>Design Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0&nbsp;</p><p>The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0</p><p>By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast.</p>","author_name":"Allen Higgins"}