Data Community DC

I co-founded Data Community DC to give data people in the DC area a place to learn, share, and connect. What started as two small meetup groups with about 1,500 members grew into a network of 10 groups with over 15,000 members — making it one of the largest data science communities in the country.

We hosted regular meetups, workshops, and conferences across disciplines: data science, data engineering, machine learning, NLP, and data visualization.

The biggest thing I took away from it was how much community accelerates careers. Many of the best opportunities in my own career trace directly back to relationships built through DC2.