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DESCRIPTION:Click for Latest Location Information: http://edw2024.dataversi
 ty.net/sessionPop.cfm?confid=159&proposalid=15038\nKnowing what one’s
  life’s work is about is an amazing feeling that, sadly, too few peop
 le experience. But knowing the why and what, but not the where or how, can 
 feel worse than not knowing one’s purpose at all.\n\nAnthony Algmin h
 as lived the blessing and the curse. In his 23-year career, he’s had 
 more jobs than you would think reasonable. Industry jobs, consulting jobs, 
 tech jobs, and sales jobs. He’s been a Chief Data Officer, and worked
  for organizations as large as 50,000, and as small as two.\n\nAnd not one 
 of them felt right…until now.\n\nIn April 2023, Anthony left a leade
 rship position in Big Pharma to become a sports betting YouTuber and softwa
 re entrepreneur. Nine months later, 8rain Station launched as the most adva
 nced data-driven sports betting analytics software available.\n\nHis decisi
 ons have raised some eyebrows, but the lessons he will share in this entert
 aining keynote should be heard by everyone with data at the core of their l
 ife’s work.\n\n
 Why where we end up in our careers is not nearly as random as it may seem\n
 Knowing your unique strengths, and why context may be all you need to turn 
 them from liabilities to competitive advantage\n
 How taking calculated risks can lead to incredible outcomes\n
 Why data-driven sports betting may be as perfect a representation of how da
 ta can drive value as we may find anywhere.  \n
 How sports betting techniques can be applied to the real world, for re
 al people, with real jobs\n\n
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SUMMARY:Betting on Yourself: How a Data Career of Wrong Jobs Led to Finding
  a Forever Home
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