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Thanks for the tips, but as a student it seems a bit hard to get access to the data sets etc. needed for those. However, I'll look into it.
by mhlakhani 16y ago
Thanks for the tips, but as a student it seems a bit hard to get access to the data sets etc. needed for those. However, I'll look into it.
- tst 16y agoYou're welcome! I think I see your problem in 3, (2 isn't too hard, you can buy your DNA sequence for ~$200). There are a lot of logistics companies which may have valuable data but can't mine them properly (especially the smaller, not Fedex or DHL). I don't know which industries interests you, but there are some industry sectors like logistics, agriculture or finance which heavily rely on new insights from their data. You could start as a consultant for one company and build a product (consultingware). If it works successfully offer it other companies (http://nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-sell-your-software-for-20000.html http://nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-sell-your-sof...).
- mhlakhani 16y agoThe blog post was a pretty good read, thanks. I'm interested in data mining/AI, but need to learn much more before I'll be able to do anything useful. After some more thought I think it might just be better to focus a bit on academics and learning the theory behind all this stuff first.