Hi all, I have been a data scientist for the past 5 years. My bachelors is in information systems and my masters is in statistics. I don’t come from compsci and I had minimal coding other than SQL and R in my education. I have been using python for the past 4 years self taught and I am adequate with it. I would like to improve my python coding skills, more around how to build out and organize it, and best practices for structuring the files and packages. additionally use of classes and methods. I think this can be summed up as software design. The other members of my team have more extensive ..read more

Hello, I am a stats MS struggling to find work. I believe my math/stats background is holding me back because I am not PhD level but lack the engineering skills to work in applied roles in industry. When I do self learning projects I can only ever think of ideas implementing models I am interested in, but am lost as what to do to start writing production quality code and challenge myself as a software developer. Any ideas and advice is greatly appreciated! Thank you submitted by /u/medylan [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Hey everyone, I have here a dataset of KPI metrics from various social media posts. For those of you lucky enough to not be working in digital marketing, the metrics in question are things like: "impressions" (number of times a post has been seen) "reach" (number of unique accounts who have seen a post) "clicks", "comments", "likes", "shares", etc (self-explanatory) The dataset in question is incomplete, the missing values are distributed across pretty much every dimension, and my job is to develop a model to fill in those missing values. So far I've tested a KNN imputer with some success ..read more

I’m going to be starting my Masters Thesis in my stats program. I have narrowed down two projects with different faculty members. One of them is entirely self guided, and that advisor doesn’t really have any expertise in this area and the other one is basically with another faculty member but the research topic is within his domain, so he can help me, but the application strays too far from what industry I want to be in. Project 1: Causal Machine Learning, and nonparametric estimation for identifying heterogenous treatment effects in advertising/marketing data. There’s a dataset by a company ..read more

Hi everyone, I want to know if there are developments and research topics that are outside/completely orthogonal to LLMs and generative AI. To be honest, I am bored of LLMs. I don't care about the performance of Model X vs Models A,B,C,D etc. Moreover, at least 8 out of 10 projects in my organization are focused on generative AI and RAG. While I understand the usefulness of these ideas, I think there's an overload of information that is not particularly helpful for my brain. Personally, I am interested in scientific machine learning- drug discovery, climate change, physics simulations. If the ..read more

Hi guys! I am a CS student in Europe and after many rejections and terrible offers, I received and accepted a remote and paid internship at SAS. Before the interview, I did a bit of research and saw that their software is not that popular among the DS community and that its popularity is declining. I asked the interviewer what percentage of the internship would involve SAS, and he told me not to worry if I don't know SAS, as it will be only a small part, and for the rest I can use Python if I want. The internship has started, and I learned that I will need to get a SAS basic certification and ..read more

I've a CS degree and I'm currently working as a new grad Data Analyst. Aside from building dashboards and reports, I also do a lot of data engineering and some ML modelling. I'm planning to get a CS Masters after 1 - 2 years of work, then switch to DS. But looking at this sub, it seems like a lot of people recommend switching to SWE instead? I do enjoy software engineering work so I wouldn't mind the transition, but I'm interested in ML and thought DS would be a good career path for that. Is Data Science really a dying field and pay less than SWE? I even heard that switching from DS to SWE is ..read more

Hi everyone, I’m a marketing major about to graduate in May. A year and a half ago I took basic hypothesis testing/linear modeling class to try out an analytics certificate at my school, and I fell in love with statistics for the first time. When I began looking for job/internship opportunities around that time I was worried because while I didn’t mind marketing, I also didn’t love it. That’s when I made the decision to continue my degree in business, and work every week towards becoming a data analyst (and eventually, a data scientist! But I’m patient, and I wanted to wait until I’m ready. T ..read more

I have been hunting jobs for almost 4 months now. It was after 2 years, that I opened my eyes to the outside world and in the beginning, the world fell apart because I wasn't aware of how much the industry has changed and genAI and LLMs were now mandatory things. Before, I was just limited to using chatGPT as UI. So, after preparing for so many months it felt as if I was walking in circles and running across here and there without an in-depth understanding of things. I went through around 40+ job posts and studied their requirements, (for a medium seniority DS position). So, I created a plan ..read more

Hi I am working on a predictive maintenance project and I need some help. Kindly dm if anyone is willing to work on this. PS: this is research project . submitted by /u/Ambitious_Aioli_9830 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more