For the MLE’s out there, what are the most challenging aspects of your role? Getting buy in for building a data product? Maintaining production systems?
Caring about applied but glorifed stats :)
Coming up with new ways to improve mature models. Getting clean input data from messy data sources.
What does ‘applied’ mean?
At a tech company getting buy-in with a reasonable plan is pretty straightforward. Scaling and designing systems is challenging. Whether your system is significantly better than a simpler one is a big question.