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What kind of job(s) do you think you're interested in? I moved from academia to a data science job, and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. My backgro
by magneticnorth 10y ago
What kind of job(s) do you think you're interested in?
I moved from academia to a data science job, and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.
My background: Math PhD from a top school, though my research was very abstract - not really related to machine learning, algorithms, or statistics. I had some coding experience in undergrad but none in grad school.
My path: I did the Insight Data Science bootcamp (http://insightdatascience.com/ http://insightdatascience.com/), which was very effective for me.
There are really two things I got out of the bootcamp that made it effective:
1) Connections
2) Impressive project(s) to show off & get your foot in the door.
You may be able to do these things without the help of a bootcamp, and I think especially if you're more interested in coding, there are a ton of good bootcamps that can provide you with the connections and last little bit of training to land a good job.
- arrmn 10y agoWhat kind of projects did you create? I've looked at their site but can't see anything concrete.
- stablemap 10y agoThanks for sharing your experience. Our biographies are the same up until to the data science part. I hadn't really thought about these bootcamps. I'm skeptical, not only because the tuition is most of a year's stipend; but your numbered points are persuasive. I think software engineering is an obvious target. Maybe that's still too broad. There are aspects of data science (here is another word for me to define) that seem interesting.