Prominent Female Data Scientists and Their Contributions

Ada Lovelace: First computer programmer, known for progressing work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine

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Katherine Johnson: Performed critical calculations for NASA's early space missions, including the trajectory analysis for the first American in space

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Fei-Fei Li: She came up with the idea of ImageNet-the large-scale visual database-used in pushing deep learning and computer vision

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Vivian Zhang: Co-founded the NYC Data Science Academy, and has also contributed a lot towards data science education and training

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Daphne Koller: founder and CEO of Insitro, pioneers the integration of machine learning and biomedicine to design safer, more effective, and affordable therapies

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