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Klaviyo Data Science Podcast EP 35 | How to become a data scientist
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Welcome back to the Klaviyo Data Science podcast! This episode, we dive into…
The question is slightly tongue-in-cheek, but only slightly. Data science is a new field — while many people today are graduating with degrees in data science, the same was not true a decade ago. Many of the people who work (and will work) as data scientists were not classically trained as a data scientist, but as something else. This month, we examine that process: the process of working in a field that’s distinct from data science and becoming a data scientist.
We discuss several parts of that journey, including:
- What attracts someone to data science in the first place
- How to approach gaining the technical skills you need to get a data science job
- How similar some parts of the data scientist job are to washing dishes
Where do data scientists come from?“You really need to practice using these tools. I did my best to come up with excuses to use data science techniques in all my projects… maybe instead of trying to automate a workflow in Excel VBA, I’d try to automate it in python instead.”
- Steven Her, Data Scientist
Read the full writeup on Medium!
58 episodes
Manage episode 362431837 series 3251385
Welcome back to the Klaviyo Data Science podcast! This episode, we dive into…
The question is slightly tongue-in-cheek, but only slightly. Data science is a new field — while many people today are graduating with degrees in data science, the same was not true a decade ago. Many of the people who work (and will work) as data scientists were not classically trained as a data scientist, but as something else. This month, we examine that process: the process of working in a field that’s distinct from data science and becoming a data scientist.
We discuss several parts of that journey, including:
- What attracts someone to data science in the first place
- How to approach gaining the technical skills you need to get a data science job
- How similar some parts of the data scientist job are to washing dishes
Where do data scientists come from?“You really need to practice using these tools. I did my best to come up with excuses to use data science techniques in all my projects… maybe instead of trying to automate a workflow in Excel VBA, I’d try to automate it in python instead.”
- Steven Her, Data Scientist
Read the full writeup on Medium!
58 episodes
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