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I wonder, is it true for DataScience too? Does being good at kaggke competions negatively correlates with actual job performance?

• angry_octet 6y ago
  Kaggle comps don't, to my knowledge, involve tasks like: - Convincing someone to give you data. - Convincing them to spend great effort into changing their data collection and labelling practices. - Explaining why a particular technique was used and why it is correct. - Explaining why they can't expect magic from 'big data'. - Making models that are robust and easily maintained, vs fragile spaghetti. But I don't think being good at kaggle implies being bad at data science soft skills. Technical skills are probably weakly correlated -- that's my prior, it would be good to see a study. I did find a paper examining the performance of TopCoder participants: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09755-0 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09755-0