Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby?

Re:Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby? by minimaxir on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @08:11PM (#15077416)

While working as a Software QA Engineer at Apple, I wrote a large amount of statistical blog posts to get a breadth of skills outside of my role (story: http://minimaxir.com/2017/05/leaving-apple/)

I did have a statistical background before starting at Apple however. Most of my projects were self-taught and done as self-research (I am not a fan of the take-a-million-MOOCs strategy everyone likes).

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Re:Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby? by RealAnalysis on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @08:57PM (#15077654)

Thanks for the link!

I'm mostly interested in self-research.

How'd you know you were doing sound stats?

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Re:Ask HN: Do any of you do data science as a hobby? by usgroup on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @03:11AM (#15079245)

Oh that's easy ... put money on it, it'll make you a better statistician in no time.

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