Getting into Data Science
Any suggestion on how to getting into data science. I'd like to broaden my horizon and I have some expertise with apache spark and Hadoop but I'd love to make that my main field of expertise. I'm sick of all the UI crap I have to do now.
Hmm. It is not really what its cracked up to be.
What do you mean? All you read and see is data and analytics etc.
I mean being a software engineer is still generally better. Data scientists don't really get paid more
Since you did UI, maybe you can start from data visualization, or contribute to TensorBoard, etc.
the best data scientists I have met have business/finance training. If you are already a programmer, picking up r, python or SQL is easy. The tough part will be teaching your brain to think in actionable use cases
can't agree more. I come from a finance econ background and am starting to learn coding which is the opposite of the OP, but coders tend to think in programming mentality and not business impact
I hope this to be the case longer term. I started as a finance person and moved to analytics. I've taken graduate math and stats courses at top schools but still experience some friction with recruiters because I don't have a PhD or similar. I've hired those types and the degree does not immediately make you great but that hasn't trickled down to recruiters yet.
Learn a shit ton of statistics, not the basics but a shit ton. Don't pussy out.
first start with learning the basics of either R or Python with Pandas. PM if you want some pointers
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