How to become a Data Scientist in 6 months
summary
Claims a transition from project manager to hired data scientist in about six months and shows the concrete path: Coursera (Andrew Ng) coursework, joining meetups and running a study group, doing Kaggle competitions and hackathons, learning R and deploying on a Google Cloud VM, reading papers and using TensorFlow. Lists costs (masters ≈ £28,000), pitfalls, time budgets and networking tactics, and reports getting a startup ML job working on radiological imagery within that timeframe.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:56Higher education
- 13:02Things not to do
- 17:55What did I do in the end?
- 21:51Time discounting and willpower
- 26:27Time management techniques
- 31:37Networking
- 37:18Resources for Data Science transition
- 44:34Don’t get started
- 45:51Q&A
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