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Re:Ask HN: Breaking into Scientific Programming? by kghose on Thursday September 19, 2013 @04:32PM (#6414090)
You could offer to intern at a data science place and start in their user interface/visualization end. Then as you interact more with the people doing statistical analyses you could figure out if that's something that you would like and get pointers from them what books to read/courses to take.
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Re:Ask HN: Breaking into Scientific Programming? by sciprog on Thursday September 19, 2013 @05:01PM (#6414280)
That's a great suggestion, thanks. In your experience, have you run across any self-taught analysts, or do they typically have a background in a quantitative field?
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Re:Ask HN: Breaking into Scientific Programming? by kghose on Friday September 27, 2013 @10:49AM (#6457266)
I'm not in industry, but I do a lot of data analysis and enjoy it. I'm effectively self taught. I think beyond a certain level most people are self-taught.
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