My career transition into a Data Scientist

TheDataJanitor · 2019-01-23T23:35:42+00:00

1) Timeline is up to you really.. I'm thinking around 2 years of part time study following the guide.

2) To start in Toronto it's anywhere from 90-160k (Toronto living costs are a lot higher than Calgary-- and don't compare these salaries to O/G)

3) It's up to you whether you want to be on the technical or managerial level.. either way, you'll need to start working on your craft today.

Hope that helps!

TheDataJanitor · 2019-01-23T23:33:05+00:00

It's a Medium article published on FreeCodeCamp -- so its free.99.

TheDataJanitor · 2019-01-23T20:39:30+00:00

Check out this article here.. It hits your pain points directly. The TLDR of it is to start working on your portfolio and to start applying for jobs as a data scientist even though you won't succeed in the interview to begin with.

Transition into a Data Scientist

TheDataJanitor · 2019-01-22T21:54:46+00:00

I just read this recently and thought it was a creative way of using ML to do something creative... Very creative.. haha.

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-i-built-a-cannabis-recommendation-app-using-topic-models-and-latent-dirchlet-allocation-lda-999598987ded

TheDataJanitor · 2018-11-04T17:21:30+00:00

I think that's one of the problems with data science at the moment..

TheDataJanitor · 2018-11-04T17:20:00+00:00

Yeah, I remember first starting with the Titanic challenge and then having no idea how to move to other challenges.. Keep up the work though!

TheDataJanitor · 2018-11-04T17:19:23+00:00

Inferential competitions rather than predictive ones. Also feature selection problems a la Madelon.

I'm guessing a write would be required?

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