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Should I interpret not getting response about my question for a project idea as a sign that it is not a good idea?

• brutus1213 8y ago
  I think the other commenters suggesting a better role is the best idea. Believe it or not ... there is a lot of industrial R&D ... people don't publish papers on all of it. Key outputs are Proof of concepts and patents. If you find a role like that, you will likely have the best chance to succeed. That said, lets talk about the project idea .. here is what I suggest. Do a solid project (or three) and give a talk on it at a meet up or tech conference. Data science/ML is stupid hot right now as an area. But the business people don't give a crap about algorithms. They want outcomes or whatnot. So, when you do a project, don't go fully deep into an algorithm or eval. Focus on a business problem (could be some trivial data analysis on open data) and write a blog post on it/do a talk. Use visualizations. use tools used in industry for this (e.g. Tableau or whatever). Best of luck to you.
  • koots 8y ago
    I agree. But all data mining/machine learning projects I can think of are either trivial or typical. That is why I was asking for suggestions. Thank you.
    • arandr0x 8y ago
      The Kaggle competitions are good projects, just don't expect to win. I like it because I don't like studying on toy stuff. I hear it can be a social thing for some too so maybe you will meet people in your area that know of jobs for PhDs.
      • koots 8y ago
        Good idea, I will check it out.