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I have a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, and am working as a DS for the past several years, and I can tell you that there is a hard ceiling for many of us out th
by thecity2 10y ago
I have a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, and am working as a DS for the past several years, and I can tell you that there is a hard ceiling for many of us out there, because we don't have enough of a math background (I'm looking at you "Real Analysis") to ever really understand the "deep theory" that someone with a PhD in Statistics or Math (or hell even a BS in Math) can have.
However, having said that, I still consider myself a very productive DS, and I get stuff done. I'm not going to ever be on a research team at Google, but those aren't the only kinds of DS jobs out there.
And I'm not just plotting stuff.
- aoki 10y agoto your point about analysis, the folks with a CS education here (myself included) should ponder this quote from the intro: "...we have written this book to cover the theory likely to be useful in the next 40 years, just as an understanding of automata theory, algorithms and related topics gave students an advantage in the last 40 years. One of the major changes is the switch from discrete mathematics to more of an emphasis on probability, statistics, and numerical methods." some of the key stuff in statistical learning isn't even real analysis, it's functional analysis (usually two courses later).