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It also doesn't help the training pipeline silos people like this in colleges with certain prescribed course requirements or closing off certain classes to nonm
by asdff 3y ago
It also doesn't help the training pipeline silos people like this in colleges with certain prescribed course requirements or closing off certain classes to nonmajors. We already force people to take english/second language/cultural/physical education credits to "round them out" according to the liberal arts philosophy. Might as well modernize this and require people to take some units of programming as well as statistics (although statistics unfortunately suffers from having too much boring/high school rehash/not that useful fundamentals to cover before you can get into the sort of testing you'd do on the job as a data scientist).
- al_borland 3y agoI could see this paying huge dividends. Being able to throw a quick script together to make light work of an otherwise arduous task is a huge time saver, while also greatly increasing the quality of the work. Even within the IT org I’m in, people who can do something like this seem few and far between. There are a lot of people who can tweak some existing code, but can’t take an idea and turn it into something. I often thought I’d be happier in a job outside of IT, but when some basic coding skills. It would be like having a super power, compared to those who haven’t taken the time to learn the skills.