In 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article with the title, “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century,” which brought a surge of excitement to the field. More recently, with the advent of ChatGPT, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has become all the rage.
Great read. My current role involves data engineering, data viz, data cleaning, and essentially being the middle man between our stakeholders and the machine learning team.
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But in my experience , the best way I’ve learnt whatever skills I have is on the job. Sources like leetcode and kaggle don’t foresee different obstacles that might need a use case which is outside of what you might think the problem is. I feel that kind of exposure you can get only while you’re on the job. You become more flexible in understanding what to expect. Also the business sense that is the first skill is also something that you get only while working in a corporate setting.
Great read. My current role involves data engineering, data viz, data cleaning, and essentially being the middle man between our stakeholders and the machine learning team.
I totally agree that looking at YouTube, doing kaggle challenges, learning through websites like leetcode is one of the best ways for self motivated people who want to hone their skills.
But in my experience , the best way I’ve learnt whatever skills I have is on the job. Sources like leetcode and kaggle don’t foresee different obstacles that might need a use case which is outside of what you might think the problem is. I feel that kind of exposure you can get only while you’re on the job. You become more flexible in understanding what to expect. Also the business sense that is the first skill is also something that you get only while working in a corporate setting.
Totally agree! Thanks for giving it a read