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My problem was not with Alex or his approach (which I agree is a great way to get started as stated in my original post). It was the narrative the article was
by nightski 8y ago
My problem was not with Alex or his approach (which I agree is a great way to get started as stated in my original post).
It was the narrative the article was pushing about how knowledge of the field doesn't matter, just strong work ethic and selling yourself visually to potential employers.
- disgruntledphd2 8y agoI get where you're coming from (and I was convinced that I would dislike the article when I realised what it was about). However, there's some good advice: - get real data - clean it, play with it, build models - focus on the cleaning, as that's what the gig normally is (and damn right too, your models will be way better if you've taken the time to understand your data). I did find the and then he got a job part annoying, but the post was much better than I expected (relative to other towardsdatascience posts).