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Maybe they could try actually hiring those of us who have PhDs in other fields who are actually enthusiastic about generating large quantities of reproducible a

Maybe they could try actually hiring those of us who have PhDs in other fields who are actually enthusiastic about generating large quantities of reproducible and transferable data. I hear people say all the time how this is what they want, yet for some reason if you aren't already published in machine learning no one wants to take a risk. Instead it's easier to complain about poorly formatted datasets.

disgruntledphd2 6y ago
Don't go for a research job. Your actual data skills will be super valuable to a company that's trying to increase revenue/decrease costs. Bonus if you did an individual PhD, as you'll likely be able to organise your workload better.
- bosie 6y ago
  what's an individual PhD?
  - disgruntledphd2 6y ago
    One where you don't get handed a topic and a lab by your advisor.
- neltnerb 6y ago
  My skills are strongly in the direction of "design, build, and operate a test lab that will be used to automate collection of high quality datasets relevant to the problem of interest". Whenever I've tried to actually use existing data to attack the problems I'm most interested in the fundamental problem is that data that is comparable between different labs doesn't exist. And to avoid any confusion, I'm not saying it doesn't replicate, just that it's not easily comparable, like if you want to know what platinum catalysts will do over an alkene but the data you can find was done in a batch reactor with 22nm platinum and you're using a continuous flow reactor with 10nm platinum. And it's usually worse than that once you include how it's supported, what flow rates were, heating profiles, etc. It just goes on and on if you don't do it yourself.
  - disgruntledphd2 6y ago
    > My skills are strongly in the direction of "design, build, and operate a test lab that will be used to automate collection of high quality datasets relevant to the problem of interest". Those sound like incredibly useful skills in any business which deals with data (which is most of them). I'm partial to consumer tech (psychology background), but there are opportunities for people with these skill sets.

disgruntledphd2 6y ago

Don't go for a research job. Your actual data skills will be super valuable to a company that's trying to increase revenue/decrease costs. Bonus if you did an individual PhD, as you'll likely be able to organise your workload better.

bosie 6y ago
what's an individual PhD?
- disgruntledphd2 6y ago
  One where you don't get handed a topic and a lab by your advisor.
neltnerb 6y ago
My skills are strongly in the direction of "design, build, and operate a test lab that will be used to automate collection of high quality datasets relevant to the problem of interest". Whenever I've tried to actually use existing data to attack the problems I'm most interested in the fundamental problem is that data that is comparable between different labs doesn't exist. And to avoid any confusion, I'm not saying it doesn't replicate, just that it's not easily comparable, like if you want to know what platinum catalysts will do over an alkene but the data you can find was done in a batch reactor with 22nm platinum and you're using a continuous flow reactor with 10nm platinum. And it's usually worse than that once you include how it's supported, what flow rates were, heating profiles, etc. It just goes on and on if you don't do it yourself.
- disgruntledphd2 6y ago
  > My skills are strongly in the direction of "design, build, and operate a test lab that will be used to automate collection of high quality datasets relevant to the problem of interest". Those sound like incredibly useful skills in any business which deals with data (which is most of them). I'm partial to consumer tech (psychology background), but there are opportunities for people with these skill sets.