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Nov
Women make up 15% to 22% of data science professionals, research from the Boston Consulting Group shows. One of the women who is hoping to increase that number is Chisoo Lyons, the executive director of Women in Data Science Worldwide (WiDS) and a BigDATAwire 2024 Person to Watch. WiDS started in 2015 with a one-day technical conference at Stanford University to give women a voice in data science. Since then, the group has expanded significantly, and it now touches more than 150,000 participants across 160 countries via conferences, datathons, podcasts, upskilling workshops, its Next Gen outreach program, the WiDS Academy,…