On Being a Female Data Scientist

How did I get to be all of those things? I wish I could say "I did well in school" or "I always loved computers." But the reality is, in middle/high school, I was bored stiff. At 16, I dropped out of school to begin an illustrious career in office cleaning. The odds were stacked against me entering the computing industry for many reasons. Being female, thanks to a decades-long initiative by the British government to keep women out of computing.