User-Centric Thinking in Data Science: Conversation with Anna Wu at Google Cloud (Part 2 of 3)

In this second part of my interview with Anna Wu, she describes the interconnections between data science and qualitative UX research.

You can listen to it here: https://ethno-data.com/anna-wu-interview-part2/.

Here is the first interview if you would like to start from scratch, and here is more information about Interview Series that this is a part of.

Anna Wu, established leader in building and leading high-performing data teams to drive changes impacting hundreds of millions of users. Currently as a research manager at Google, she leads a team of quantitative UX researchers applying UX methods and large scale analytics to inform Cloud product development.

Before this recent chapter, Anna had 10+ years practicing UX and data science at top IT companies and research labs as a UX researcher, data scientist, research scientist at Microsoft, IBM Research and Palo Alto Research Center. She got her PhD in HCI from Penn State and master/bachelor degrees from Tsinghua University.

Originally published at https://ethno-data.com on February 14, 2023.