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  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 31 Mar, 2025 – 07 Apr, 2025

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 31 Mar, 2025 – 07 Apr, 2025 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 24 Mar, 2025 – 31 Mar, 2025

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 24 Mar, 2025 – 31 Mar, 2025 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 17 Mar, 2025 – 24 Mar, 2025

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 17 Mar, 2025 – 24 Mar, 2025 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 10 Mar, 2025 – 17 Mar, 2025

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 10 Mar, 2025 – 17 Mar, 2025 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 03 Mar, 2025 – 10 Mar, 2025

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 03 Mar, 2025 – 10 Mar, 2025 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 24 Feb, 2025 – 03 Mar, 2025

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 24 Feb, 2025 – 03 Mar, 2025 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 17 Feb, 2025 – 24 Feb, 2025

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 17 Feb, 2025 – 24 Feb, 2025 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 10 Feb, 2025 – 17 Feb, 2025

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 10 Feb, 2025 – 17 Feb, 2025 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 03 Feb, 2025 – 10 Feb, 2025

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 03 Feb, 2025 – 10 Feb, 2025 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 27 Jan, 2025 – 03 Feb, 2025

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 27 Jan, 2025 – 03 Feb, 2025 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • [Official] 2024 End of Year Salary Sharing thread

    [Official] 2024 End of Year Salary Sharing thread This is the official thread for sharing your current salaries (or recent offers). See last year’s Salary Sharing thread here. There was also an unofficial one from an hour ago here. Please only post salaries/offers if you’re including hard numbers, but feel free to use a throwaway…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 20 Jan, 2025 – 27 Jan, 2025

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 20 Jan, 2025 – 27 Jan, 2025 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • Anyone ever feel like working as a data scientist at hinge?

    Anyone ever feel like working as a data scientist at hinge? Need to figure out what that damn algorithm is doing to keep me from getting matches lol. On a serious note I have read about some interesting algorithmic work at dating app companies. Any data scientists here ever worked for a dating app company?…

  • Influential Time-Series Forecasting Papers of 2023-2024: Part 1

    Influential Time-Series Forecasting Papers of 2023-2024: Part 1 This article explores some of the latest advancements in time-series forecasting. You can find the article here. Edit: If you know of any other interesting papers, please share them in the comments. submitted by /u/nkafr [link] [comments] /u/nkafr Go to original source

  • Should I Try to postpone my FAANG Interview?

    Should I Try to postpone my FAANG Interview? So I got contacted by a FAANG Recruiter for a Data Scientist Role I applied for a month and a half ago. But as I have started to prep, I realize I am not ready and need 1 to 2 months before I would be able to…

  • Where to Start when Data is Limited: A Guide

    Where to Start when Data is Limited: A Guide Hey, I’ve put together an article on my thoughts and some research around how to get the most out of small datasets when performance requirements mean conventional analysis isn’t enough. It’s aimed at helping people get started with new projects who have already started with the…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 13 Jan, 2025 – 20 Jan, 2025

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 13 Jan, 2025 – 20 Jan, 2025 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • Where do you go to stay up to date on data analytics/science?

    Where do you go to stay up to date on data analytics/science? Are there any people or organizations you follow on Youtube, Twitter, Medium, LinkedIn, or some other website/blog/podcast that you always tend to keep going back to? My previous career absolutely lacked all the professional “content creators” that data analytics have, so I was…

  • Is data science at meta just a/b testing?

    Is data science at meta just a/b testing? I’ve been at Meta a year and all I do is run a/b tests. In my old jobs I used to build models and products using data science. Does this happen under a different job title here or am I just in wrong department? submitted by /u/Longjumping-Will-127…

  • How we matured Fisher, our A/B testing library

    How we matured Fisher, our A/B testing library submitted by /u/chomoloc0 [link] [comments] /u/chomoloc0 Go to original source

  • 200 applications – no response, please help. I have applied for data science (associate or mid-level) positions. Thank you

    200 applications – no response, please help. I have applied for data science (associate or mid-level) positions. Thank you submitted by /u/Sad_Campaign713 [link] [comments] /u/Sad_Campaign713 Go to original source

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 06 Jan, 2025 – 13 Jan, 2025

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 06 Jan, 2025 – 13 Jan, 2025 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • data experience

    data experience submitted by /u/fool126 [link] [comments] /u/fool126 Go to original source

  • Do you prepare for interviews first or apply for jobs first?

    Do you prepare for interviews first or apply for jobs first? I’ve started looking for a new job and find myself in a bit of a dilemma that I’m hoping you might have some experience with. Every day, I come across roles that seem like a great fit, but I hesitate to apply because I…

  • What’s your biggest time sink as a data scientist?

    What’s your biggest time sink as a data scientist? I’ve got a few ideas for DS tooling I was thinking of taking on as a side project, so this is a bit of a market research post. I’m curious what data-scientist specific task/problem is the biggest time suck for you at work. I feel like…

  • How are these companies building video/image generation tools? From scratch, fine-tuning Llama, or something else?

    How are these companies building video/image generation tools? From scratch, fine-tuning Llama, or something else? There’s an enormous amount of LLM-based tools popping up lately, especially in video/image generation, each tied to a different company. Meanwhile, we only see a handful of really good open-source LLM models available. So, my question is: How are these…

  • My Data Science Manifesto from a Self Taught Data Scientist

    My Data Science Manifesto from a Self Taught Data Scientist Background I’m a self-taught data scientist, with about 5 years of data analyst experience and now about 5 years as a Data Scientist. I’m more math minded than the average person, but I’m not special. I have a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, and have…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 30 Dec, 2024 – 06 Jan, 2025

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 30 Dec, 2024 – 06 Jan, 2025 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • recommend me the best statistics textbook for data science

    recommend me the best statistics textbook for data science I am intermediate level student who already studied stats , But i want to revisit it from DS and ML perspective submitted by /u/Emotional-Rhubarb725 [link] [comments] /u/Emotional-Rhubarb725 Go to original source

  • Looking for some Senior DS Advice

    Looking for some Senior DS Advice Hello everyone, I think this is okay to be a post since it’s not about entering/transitioning, but if I need to repost in the weekly threads please let me know! TLDR: I started working as a Data Scientist at a medium to large company almost 3 years ago. I…

  • What are some of the most interesting applied ml papers/blogs you read in 2024 or projects you worked on

    What are some of the most interesting applied ml papers/blogs you read in 2024 or projects you worked on I am looking for some interesting successful/unsuccessful real-world machine learning applications. You are also free to share experiences building applications with machine learning that have actually had some real world impact. Something of this type: LinkedIn…

  • You Get a Dataset and Need to Find a “Good” Model Quickly (in Hours or Days), what’s your strategy?

    You Get a Dataset and Need to Find a “Good” Model Quickly (in Hours or Days), what’s your strategy? Typical Scenario: Your friend gives you a dataset and challenges you to beat their model’s performance. They don’t tell you what they did, but they provide a single CSV file and the performance metric to optimize.…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 23 Dec, 2024 – 30 Dec, 2024

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 23 Dec, 2024 – 30 Dec, 2024 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • tHe wINdoWs mL EcOsYteM

    tHe wINdoWs mL EcOsYteM submitted by /u/Hire_Ryan_Today [link] [comments] /u/Hire_Ryan_Today Go to original source

  • Statisticians, Scripts, and Chaos: My Journey Back to the 90s

    Statisticians, Scripts, and Chaos: My Journey Back to the 90s We often hear a lot about how data science teams can lack statistical expertise and how this can lead to flawed analyses or misinterpretation of results. It’s a valid concern, and the dangers are real. But let me tell you, there’s another side of the…

  • ML pipeline questions

    ML pipeline questions I am building an application that processes videos and that needs to run many tasks (some need to be sequentially and some in parallel). Think audio extraction, ASR, diarization, translation, video classification, etc… Note that this is in supposed to be run online, i.e. this is supposed to be used in a…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 16 Dec, 2024 – 23 Dec, 2024

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 16 Dec, 2024 – 23 Dec, 2024 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • What projects are you working on and what is the benefit of your efforts?

    What projects are you working on and what is the benefit of your efforts? I would really like to hear what you guys are working on, challenges you’re facing and how your project is helping your company. Let’s hear it. submitted by /u/Firm-Message-2971 [link] [comments] /u/Firm-Message-2971 Go to original source

  • Data science is a luxury for almost all companies

    Data science is a luxury for almost all companies Let’s face it, most of the data science project you work on only deliver small incremental improvements. Emphasis on the word “most”, l don’t mean all data science projects. Increments of 3% – 7% are very common for data science projects. I believe it’s mostly useful…

  • Capital One Power Day for Data Scientist

    Capital One Power Day for Data Scientist Hi all, I have an upcoming Capital One Power Day interview for a Data Scientist role, and I was hoping to get some insights from those who have recently gone through the process. The day consists of 4 rounds: Stats Role Play Analyst Case Technical Interview Job Fit…

  • What’s the point of testing machine learning model knowledge during interviews for non-research data science roles?

    What’s the point of testing machine learning model knowledge during interviews for non-research data science roles? I always make an effort to learn how a model works and how it differs from other similar models whenever I encounter a new model. So it felt natural to me that these topics were brought up in interviews.…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 09 Dec, 2024 – 16 Dec, 2024

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 09 Dec, 2024 – 16 Dec, 2024 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • Is your org treating the rollout of LLMs as an IT or data science problem?

    Is your org treating the rollout of LLMs as an IT or data science problem? Our org has given all resource (and limited all API access) to LLMs to a dedicated team in the IT department, which has no prior data experience. So far no data scientist has been engaged for feedback on design or…

  • Are certifications even worth it these days?

    Are certifications even worth it these days? So, I’m a cs major stats minor undergrad, and I’ve done a couple of certifications—AWS Cloud Practitioner and IBM Data Science. Honestly, I’m not sure if they added much value. In one interview, I mentioned my certifications right at the end, and they didn’t even seem to notice.…

  • How to find freelance opportunities – what is the most typical troupe of project you do as freelance

    How to find freelance opportunities – what is the most typical troupe of project you do as freelance Hi all, I have 5+ years of experience. I’m based in Europe Lately I’m thinking switch from full time employee to contractor, doing freelancing and working for different companies at the same time. I think that freelancing…

  • Timeseries pattern detection problem

    Timeseries pattern detection problem I’ve never dealt with any time series data – please help me understand if I’m reinventing the wheel or on the right track. I’m building a little hobby app, which is a habit tracker of sorts. The idea is that it lets the user record things they’ve done, on a daily…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 02 Dec, 2024 – 09 Dec, 2024

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 02 Dec, 2024 – 09 Dec, 2024 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • F5-TTS is highly underrated for Audio Cloning !

    F5-TTS is highly underrated for Audio Cloning ! submitted by /u/mehul_gupta1997 [link] [comments] /u/mehul_gupta1997 Go to original source

  • Daily averaged time series comparison -Linking plankton and aerosols emissions?

    Daily averaged time series comparison -Linking plankton and aerosols emissions? Hi everyone, so we have this dataset of daily averaged pytoplankton time series over a full year; coccolithophores, chlorophytes, cyanobacteria, diatoms, dinoflagellates, phaecocystis, zooplankton. Then we have atmospheric measurements on the same time intervals of a few aerosols species; Methanesulphonic acid, carboxylic acids, aliphatics, sulphates,…

  • Need help gathering data

    Need help gathering data Hello! I’m currently analysing data from politicians across the world and I would like to know if there’s a database with data like years in charge, studies they had, age, gender and some other relevant topics. Please, if you had any links I’ll be glad to check them all. *Need help,…

  • Feature creation out of two features.

    Feature creation out of two features. I have been working on a project that tried to identify interactions in variables. What is a good way to capture these interactions by creating features? What are good mathematical expressions to capture interaction beyond multiplication and division? Do note i have nulls and i cannot change it. submitted…

  • Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 25 Nov, 2024 – 02 Dec, 2024

    Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 25 Nov, 2024 – 02 Dec, 2024 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…

  • Just spent the afternoon chatting with ChatGPT about a work problem. Now I am a convert.

    Just spent the afternoon chatting with ChatGPT about a work problem. Now I am a convert. I have to build an optimization algorithm on a domain I have not worked in before (price sensitivity based, revenue optimization) Well, instead of googling around, I asked ChatGPT which we do have available at work. And it was…

  • Should I try to become a Data scientist or AI engineer

    Should I try to become a Data scientist or AI engineer Background: I’m a 25M with 2.5 years experience as an analyst. (Soon enrolling in a masters program in CS) There are a few careers possibilities for me, but I’m confused as to whether I should try to become a general data scientist or ai…

  • Have you ever presented an analysis or shipped a model just because someone demand it, even when you knew it was wrong, just to save your ass?

    Have you ever presented an analysis or shipped a model just because someone demand it, even when you knew it was wrong, just to save your ass? This has been quite common in my career. Execs demand a model X, we barely have good data to create nor the model turns out good, but telling…

  • I Wrote a Guide to Simulation in Python with SimPy

    I Wrote a Guide to Simulation in Python with SimPy Hi folks, I wrote a guide on discrete-event simulation with SimPy, designed to help you learn how to build simulations using Python. Kind of like the official documentation but on steroids. I have used SimPy personally in my own career for over a decade, it…