“Python Is Not Enough To Save You” – Cansu

How Cansu Used ‘Leadership’ to Crack Secret Industry Codes (A Amsterdam Tech Case Study)

TLDR: You can be the best coder in the world, but if you can’t get the data, your code is useless.

Cansu’s Secret Weapon: When Cansu started her project on airplane engines, she hit a wall. The data she needed was proprietary and secret. A “standard” coder would have given up and used a fake, clean dataset from a website.

How She Fixed It: Through her leadership lessons with her mentor, Steve, Cansu learned a technical skill most people ignore: The Art of Inquiry.

• The “Press”: She learned how to “press” the right people for information.
• Asking, Not Guessing: Instead of guessing what the data meant, she learned to ask the right questions to the right stakeholders.

The Amsterdam Tech (AT) Value: Our Leadership Bootcamp isn’t about being a “boss.” It’s about getting what you need to finish the job. Cansu found that “soft skills” are actually the “hardest” part of tech—and the only reason she was able to finish her project.The Bottom Line: Code is a tool, but Inquiry is the engine. If you can’t talk to people to solve problems, a bot will eventually replace you. Cansu proved that being a “Data Scientist” is 50% math and 50% being brave enough to ask the right questions.