How did your initial work with iHub R help to bring you to where you are today? What were important lessons or values did you picked up along the way?
I owe everything about where I am today to iHub R. It gave me an internship and then allowed me to stay on and work on some many cool projects. I met the connections that have allowed me to continue to grow my career. Because of iHub I could be said to be one of the early people to actually call themself a data scientist in Kenya. I learned the value of smart work, the importance of relationship, how to pitch and talk to people about what I do, writing reports (I did not enjoy this), confidence writing in my own voice, so much. Lessons: giving your people flexibility allows them to do their best work, protect it. Anyone can have important input even an intern.
Sidney Ochieng (July 2018)
Sidney Ochieng
Anonymous, "Sidney Ochieng on iHub Research Training", contributed by Angela Okune, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 3 August 2018, accessed 25 August 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/sidney-ochieng-ihub-research-training
Critical Commentary
Angela Okune: This excerpt from a typed survey response by Sidney Ochieng illustrates how iHub Research provided an important testing ground and space for emerging researchers to develop their own areas of professional expertise and interests.