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It would be incredibly helpful if you had some sort of CV here. Right now, the answer is potentially anywhere without knowing more information.

by debacle 15y ago

tomrod 15y ago
Fair point. Here is a link to my cv: http://tinyurl.com/vitatomrod http://tinyurl.com/vitatomrod
- debacle 15y ago
  It looks pretty well rounded, programmatically speaking, at least for an mathematics/econ grad. I wouldn't hire you as a programmer unless I saw some code samples, and IMHO you probably don't have enough experience with the SDLC to be a good producer, but you'd probably fit a data analysis role relatively well. The problem is that data analysis is more and more about managing your data and making it more accessible, and less and less about the modelling itself. It's much easier to teach a programmer that knows about big data statistics than it is to teach someone that knows statistics about big data, in my experience, but as someone who already has some programming experience you might pick it up very easily.
  - tomrod 15y ago
    Thanks for that debacle. As I have the "year" to beef up various weak points of my cv, what would you suggest? Classes or a project that use scientific computing? Learn Hadoop?
    - debacle 15y ago
      If you want to work with data, Hadoop might not be a bad idea, but in reality you run into the experience chicken-egg problem: You're not going to be able to get access to the datasets you need to get experience with the datasets that you need experience with until you have experience with large data sets! I would look for an open source project that has data manipulation needs (LibreOffice might be a good start) or some free and huge data sources (National Weather Service has a ton) and see if you can be of assistance there. I would also recommend trying to take on some freelance work in mobile or web programming (low barrier to entry, lots of small projects available). Do some small projects for your local NPOs for free, or become involved in some way. Many people will tell you to go the OSS route, but to be honest it can be very intimidating to contribute to an OSS project, and generally the turnaround is slow. The github pull request lifecycle is approximately 100 years.

It would be incredibly helpful if you had some sort of CV here. Right now, the answer is potentially anywhere without knowing more information.

by debacle 15y ago

It would be incredibly helpful if you had some sort of CV here. Right now, the answer is potentially anywhere without knowing more information.

tomrod 15y ago

Fair point. Here is a link to my cv: http://tinyurl.com/vitatomrod http://tinyurl.com/vitatomrod

debacle 15y ago
It looks pretty well rounded, programmatically speaking, at least for an mathematics/econ grad. I wouldn't hire you as a programmer unless I saw some code samples, and IMHO you probably don't have enough experience with the SDLC to be a good producer, but you'd probably fit a data analysis role relatively well. The problem is that data analysis is more and more about managing your data and making it more accessible, and less and less about the modelling itself. It's much easier to teach a programmer that knows about big data statistics than it is to teach someone that knows statistics about big data, in my experience, but as someone who already has some programming experience you might pick it up very easily.
- tomrod 15y ago
  Thanks for that debacle. As I have the "year" to beef up various weak points of my cv, what would you suggest? Classes or a project that use scientific computing? Learn Hadoop?
  - debacle 15y ago
    If you want to work with data, Hadoop might not be a bad idea, but in reality you run into the experience chicken-egg problem: You're not going to be able to get access to the datasets you need to get experience with the datasets that you need experience with until you have experience with large data sets! I would look for an open source project that has data manipulation needs (LibreOffice might be a good start) or some free and huge data sources (National Weather Service has a ton) and see if you can be of assistance there. I would also recommend trying to take on some freelance work in mobile or web programming (low barrier to entry, lots of small projects available). Do some small projects for your local NPOs for free, or become involved in some way. Many people will tell you to go the OSS route, but to be honest it can be very intimidating to contribute to an OSS project, and generally the turnaround is slow. The github pull request lifecycle is approximately 100 years.