85% of your ML project time will be spent on Data Quality and a little bit of Domain Feature Engineering. If you want to make an impact, become excellent at th

85% of your ML project time will be spent on Data Quality and a little bit of Domain Feature Engineering. If you want to make an impact, become excellent at those, you will be able to use these skills, for domains like Systems Integration and Business Analytics. Let the people who do Research bring you the Algorithms and nowadays even the trained Models.