Lessons Learned from Two Years as a Data Scientist

Re:Lessons Learned from Two Years as a Data Scientist by otabdeveloper4 on Sunday September 05, 2021 @09:26AM (#28424195)

Forgive me, but the blog is titled "what I learned from my first two years as a data scientist", and I'd rather trust the author on their word and not speculate.

(And the experience of me working with dozens of data scientists corroborates - "data science" means basic Python programming and the kind of boring trial-and-error feature engineering tasks you'd typically assign to a junior software developer.)

I want a person who actually uses statistics and math to drive business decisions, not just someone who took some statistics courses in university before becoming a software developer.

P.S. Honest question, really. I don't want to sift through 500 resumes before finding the person I want.

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Re:Lessons Learned from Two Years as a Data Scientist by FridgeSeal on Sunday September 05, 2021 @09:56AM (#28424375)

Ha, I did maths at uni and when I first graduated, the role you described was basically my dream job.

What you call the title is up to you, “data scientist” will probably net you a lot of people who mostly want to build machine-learning models, maybe “applied statistician” or “data analyst” is a better bet? Hiring out of a local uni is possibly also a decent choice if you can deal with having to bring some maths/stats grads’ business knowledge up to scratch.

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