This week's guest is super-cool Anjali Shrivastava. Anjali makes data accessible and broadly appealing by analyzing pop culture — from TikTok mansions to Star Wars timelines — in her fun and creative YouTube videos.

Anjali is an expert in data-science visualization. She has used this skill set to engineer visualizations of data in production systems in a number of roles and recently took up a data science role at the lab technology giant Thermo Fisher Scientific.

We dig into her technical expertise, including her favorite software tools and applications for viz. We also discuss Anjali's mission to bring a face to data, which she accomplishes through journalism as well as through her brilliant and fun "Vastava" YouTube channel.

Anjali holds dual degrees from the prestigious University of California, Berkeley in data science, as well as in industrial engineering and operations research. A recent graduate, she fill us in on what a data science degree curriculum is like at a top university like Berkeley, as well as how anyone can access their world class data science lectures online.

Listen or watch here.