Ask HN: Machine learning contractors, how much do you charge hourly?

Re:Ask HN: Machine learning contractors, how much do you cha... by shishy on Saturday March 30, 2019 @01:01PM (#19530475)

Commenting so I can find this thread easily later... as I'm also curious :).

I would also ask if you have a rough idea how much of the ML work is implementing basic models to production versus actual data scientific work in coming up with/tuning the underlying models themselves.

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Re:Ask HN: Machine learning contractors, how much do you cha... by ageitgey on Saturday March 30, 2019 @01:38PM (#19530674)

My experience at a very high level:

- 1% true research / original ML

- 29% figuring out clever ways to apply existing approaches to new problems, understanding how clients business works and thinking of new twists on old ideas to solve those unique problems, etc

- 70% helping the customer understand what ML can do, how to manage their data and how to convince the rest of the company and IT to let them actually do it

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Re:Ask HN: Machine learning contractors, how much do you cha... by tixocloud on Saturday March 30, 2019 @01:56PM (#19530762)

Interesting regarding the 70% - do they actually you bring you in as a consultant to help them map out their ML strategy?

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