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Maybe consider being a data engineer or a systems engineer? There's a pretty big demand for people that can set up, maintain, and assist the data scientists wi
by shepardrtc 9y ago
Maybe consider being a data engineer or a systems engineer? There's a pretty big demand for people that can set up, maintain, and assist the data scientists with the more complex tech stacks out there. In a former job as a systems engineer, I set up Hadoop clusters and helped manage data going into and out of it. And if you do decide to continue learning to become a data scientist, you'll already have a solid footing on the tech they actually use.
- arca_vorago 9y agoThat might be an option to learn from, but it's not my end goal. As a senior sysadmin who was working for and reporting to PHD execs, I saw directly how what was needed was someone to do the data science and then bring convincing results and reports to the execs, essentially distilling the knowledge and wisdom of what needed to be done. I really want to fill that disconnect. (eg one of my failures as a sysadmin was me focusing too much on the technical, and now I want to expand and play the business board room politics game, but with data science)