Tune in to Episode 2 below, or listen on Spotify to hear Josh’s story and how YOU can get involved with Let’s Make It Count and the 2020 National Census Data Competition. It’s 2020 and Your Voice Matters.
Welcome to Episode 2 of the Let’s Make it Count podcast!
In this week’s episode, we visit with Josh Starmer, a computational biologist turned YouTube star. Granted, these are two very different career paths, but it was the basic human need for communication with others that ignited the fire of his passion: bringing statistics to the masses.
Josh Starmer is the creator of StatQuest, a YouTube channel dedicated to making statistics and machine learning more approachable. During our interview, Josh takes us through the “why” of his pivotal career shift that took him from working in a genetics lab to producing videos designed to make statistics and machine learning more approachable. Josh has helped thousands of people, young and old, learn aspects of statistics that previously eluded them. It takes grit, fueled by passion, to build a YouTube subscriber audience of 344,000 from an original audience of six. In that process, Josh came to understand what exactly his purpose was, decided to devote his full-time work on producing instructional content—and a star was born.
Listen in as Josh explains how he came to know his life’s work, how statistics and data connect, and what you can do to connect your community to the larger picture of democracy. Plus, Josh gives some great prompts for the National Census Data Competition happening this year, with $5,000 available in awards and recognition. You won’t want to miss this data story!
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