Leaving Academia – Becoming a Data Scientist

Hello world! My name is Michelle Caler, and I am Freya’s most junior Data Scientist. As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I used to be an Instructor in the Department of Physics and Engineering at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Making the decision to leave academia was not something I did overnight, and […]
Ada

The following essay was Published in Drexel University Publishing Group’s annual collection (known as The 33rd”) in 2014 as the first-place winner of the Zelda Provenzano Endowed STEM Writing Award. In honor of the 207th anniversary of Ada Lovelace’s birth (December 10th, 2022) it is reprinted here with permission of the author, with minor edits. […]
Reassessing our Values

There comes a time in every organization when you need to sit down and evaluate where you are on a cultural level. Are our values still relevant to the Freya team? Have our values kept up with our evolution as a business? We asked these questions throughout last year, prompting a fruitful dialogue into the […]