Ask HN: Is it a waste of time to teach yourself data science without a degree?

Re:Ask HN: Is it a waste of time to teach yourself data scie... by dpflan on Friday May 05, 2017 @08:08AM (#14272773)

Does anyone have experience with this scenario and actually completed Udacity nanodegrees for Machine Learning or Data Science or AI?

Their programs express job placement as a perk of graduation.

https://www.udacity.com/nanodegree

Educating for the "jobs of the future" is one of Udacity's goals, data scientist being one of those jobs.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it a waste of time to teach yourself data scie... by Raf_ on Friday May 05, 2017 @11:48AM (#14274304)

I'm half-way through their Deep Learning Foundations nanodegree and I'm generally happy with it.

Note that only selected nanodegrees come with the job placement guarantee, and that the guarantee seems to essentially mean a refund, if you fail to find a job within 6 months. https://www.udacity.com/nanodegree/plus

As a sidenote - the deepest (meta) learning I've gotten is that paying for the course made me much more engaged and determined to invest time in understanding the material and completing assignments.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it a waste of time to teach yourself data scie... by Pandabob on Friday May 05, 2017 @11:58AM (#14274396)

I started the AI engineer nanodegree in April and so far have been happy (https://www.udacity.com/course/artificial-intelligence-nanod...)

The first three months are basically a walkthrough of Peter Norvigs AI book, and the second part will be about deep learning.

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