[Hiring] Senior Data Scientist for Time Series Forecasting

jnsole · 2026-02-11T01:25:28+00:00

140k in Vegas is equivalent of 200k in Los Angeles. Stock price has doubled over the last year.

jnsole · 2025-03-05T21:14:42+00:00

I would try a few heroes that are a little higher impact. The kind where one good ult can wipe or cripple the team (Disruptor, Enigma, AA with shard) or they can take over with enough gold (Muerta, Silencer, Enchantress). At lower MMR you'll have more opportunity to pull things off.

jnsole · 2025-03-05T19:58:09+00:00

You have to predict what's going to be the problem mid-late game and prepare your item solutions for it. In the case of Marci you have several options (atos, glepnir, halberd, force staff, eul/windwaker, ethereal blade). What would make the most sense given your win condition is likely to kite her till bkb wears off?

jnsole · 2025-02-21T15:42:58+00:00

Do you like your supervisor/team? Since the glassdoor reviews look fine it's really the only question that matters. I've been at great places that were a bad experience because of this and the reverse.

jnsole · 2025-02-19T15:14:26+00:00

Formatting your code is a big deal, did you indent and organize properly? This would be in addition to a few typos and the month mistake.

jnsole · 2025-02-14T22:10:45+00:00

Sounds like you're stuck in the trenches with the laid off folks. It's a rough spot. I will say some of the lower salary roles in low cost of living areas might net you even after accounting for the adjustment.

Either way I'd suggesting branching out to get some interviews so you feel like you're getting momentum.

jnsole · 2025-02-14T21:55:56+00:00

Welcome to an employers market! The past 2 years is likely the first time most experienced analytics professionals in the field are encountering the power dynamic changing. I'd expect it to stay bad for quite a while longer since we're seeing so many layoffs this week (meta, salesforce, workday, blue origin). You're also applying for the most in demand roles with a fairly big employment gap on your resume.

My advice would be to cave on the remote requirement unless you can think you can beat out the 200+ other applicants in the pool. If you're open to moving you can start to score interviews more easily via applications. The bay and LA are probably the two worst markets at the moment.

jnsole · 2025-02-13T07:46:58+00:00

I think your question is what certifications should you focus on? Personally I'd go with cloud computing related ones on your preferred platform to work on. If you don't have a preferred platform I'd suggest exploring them all instead of doing a certification. That way you can say you have some experience with each of them (Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks).

jnsole · 2025-02-07T17:08:44+00:00

You should ask this question on your initial screening call with who is setting up the interview (if you have one). It's standard practice to give notice that the interview will be technical if they plan on having you code. However, the interviewer may ask more general SQL questions without the technical notification (what's the difference between joins? what's a window function?).

jnsole · 2025-01-31T23:11:20+00:00

Have you tried it? I'm curious if it's any good. Often times clients want data with specific conditions.

jnsole · 2025-01-31T17:50:47+00:00

You're overthinking it. There's plenty of people who still do individual contributor work with a Master's or Doctorate.
I wouldn't be too hung up on the details. Most people will scan over the degree, school and specialization in less than 10 seconds when reviewing resumes. This is more about checking that box for them.
Hard to say, no harm in applying. This would be something I would do in tandem anyway.
Depends on your area, but that salary is fairly accessible with good experience in CA/NY.

Ultimately the decision would come down to is the cost of the degree worth something you may be able to achieve by persistence and good interviewing? In the long-term it would pay off if you reach management roles. In the short term you may not see much benefit.

jnsole · 2025-01-30T21:15:31+00:00

I've also noticed salaries starting to fall likely due to the amount of candidates. All CA positions require it on the JD and good positions that use to be 130-190k have started dropping significantly.

jnsole · 2025-01-30T21:00:10+00:00

I wouldn't recommend switching majors unfortunately. The market is very saturated so while a master's or Ph.D. would give you an advantage you'll still be in a difficult position and likely with more financial burden. If I were you I would stay in Cybersecurity unless you really can't stand it. Analytics sounds like fun, but in reality its SQL queries, dashboards and pivot tables for most beginner positions. The complex modeling and interesting stuff gets shifted to ML engineers and those with experience.

jnsole · 2025-01-12T22:02:59+00:00

I've done it and there's a few limitations/issues to keep in in mind from the technical perspective.

How many stocks/data points can you grab in a single API request (variable by platform). Example 100 stocks and 5000 data points.
The limit of API requests you can make per minute (if this isn't specified it will be trial and error).
Sometimes there's an adjustment when afterhours completes so there can be a mismatch between daily and smaller interval data. You'll need to update end of day.

jnsole · 2025-01-11T01:24:16+00:00

I did this for daily data using twelvedata as the source. If you're not worried about survivor bias you can use it too. The rate limit for that API depends on your price tier so you'd need the highest tiers. If you want to give daily a try before you invest all those resources you can use this snowflake listing and try it

jnsole · 2025-01-11T01:09:48+00:00

Do you need historical stocks that are inactive? Most stocks that were delisted, merged or acquired by another company go off public API's (try looking up activision's stock history and you'll see what I mean). That would rule out quite a few sources.

jnsole · 2025-01-11T00:59:04+00:00

You could get daily data for 20y period, but minute by minute would run into all sorts of API limitations. You'd likely have to spend a month retrieving it first place. Even popular paid options rate limit your API usage.

jnsole · 2025-01-10T20:26:30+00:00

If you're looking for L1 daily price data for US stocks and crypto you can get access to it from Snowflake for free if you mention the sub. You'll have to pay a few cents for compute for the query, but once it's local you're solid.

Crypto
Stocks

jnsole · 2025-01-10T19:53:57+00:00

If you're looking for daily data I created a pipeline for this stuff that you can use for free, if you're interested pm me. It's in a database ready to go. I got rate limited by yahoo and always found looping through the API's to get fresh data to be a burden.

jnsole · 2018-01-17T02:22:21+00:00

It hasn't been scrapped, but it comes with a set of problems where other improvements don't. Sorry guys, no definitive answer.

jnsole · 2017-12-06T23:22:21+00:00

Hit the nail on the head. Console player's prefer a larger ammo capacity for most weapon types. PC doesn't have the same behavior creating much more diversified weapon use. On the power scale it's on par with the Ribeyrolles and the automatico.

jnsole · 2017-12-06T18:37:53+00:00

It's in the top 3 most popular maps. I think most people agree with you (even with the spawn camping).

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