Samuel Okoye

Samuel Okoye Samuel Ejikeme Okoye (26 July 1939 – 18 November 2009) was a Nigerian astrophysicist from Amawbia in Anambra State, Nigeria. Okoye was the first Black African to obtain a doctorate degree in radio astronomy. Quotes Before I decided to go into data science, I did a lot of projects which were heavily based on mechanical engineering. I usually collect data in the process, but because I wasn’t a data scientist, I didn’t appreciate how much information data could contain. Moving into data science helped me see value in things other engineers don’t really care about. If I were to go back and do an engineering project, I would get more out of it because I would be making a decision not only based on materials, but data as well. Mechanical engineering is my domain. I like it, but it gets boring over time because you’re pretty much doing the same thing over and over. So when I was researching different career paths, I discovered that data science is growing all the time and it’s very current. Engineering is current as well, but if a design engineer uses AutoCAD to do design, that’s pretty much what they’re going to be doing [for the rest of their career]. Before I started at Springboard, my goals weren't that well defined. I was just trying to see if I could improve my skills and see where it takes me, but the more I learn about data science, the more I actually love it. So now I consider it a career switch. I’m working for a health insurance company in a data science role that is based heavily on SQL. One of my first projects is to migrate data from an old database into a new one. But in that process, we have to do some data analysis, clean the data, and so on. They hired me as a support engineer. External links Category:2009 deaths Category:1939 births Category:Physicists from Nigeria Category:Authors from Nigeria