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Announcing the ODSC Machine Learning Certification

Career Insights Featured Post Machine Learning Modeling AI Plusposted by ODSC Team April 6, 2021

A successful data scientist or AI practitioner never stops learning. However, pausing your career to return to school for another degree can be costly in terms of both time and budget. In such situations, machine learning certifications are an essential tool for both developing new skills... Read more

Established Yourself as a Data Scientist at ODSC East 2021

Career Insights Conferences Featured Post East 2021posted by ODSC Team March 23, 2021

Although training conferences are an excellent opportunity to improve your skillset in order to become a data scientist, conferences also offer another benefit: multiple chances to make connections and grow as a professional. At ODSC East 2021, we have a personal development path comprising the Ai+... Read more

Data Science Hiring Freezes — Convincing Management That’s a Bad Idea

Business + Management Career Insightsposted by ODSC Team February 22, 2021

It’s common in the wake of global disruptions to implement hiring freezes until surer times come, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic has been no different. According to a Fortune survey, 59% of CEOS have used hiring freezes as a way to save money and shore up company... Read more

Top 10 Data Science Skills for 2021

Career Insights Featured Post 2021posted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC February 2, 2021

The year 2020 has been a significant outlier for just about everything happening on planet Earth, but fortunately, data science continues to roll forward. The pandemic, in particular, has reinforced the notion to “work smart” in terms of advancing your skills for maximizing professional prospects. I... Read more

Get the Data Science Career You Want at the Ai+ Career Lab February 3rd

Career Insights Featured Post AI Plusposted by ODSC Team January 28, 2021

The holidays are over, we’ve already closed the book on January, and it’s time to start planning for the year ahead. As we all know, achieving personal and professional goals is not always easy, and often requires substantial time and effort to acquire the necessary information,... Read more

Top 10 Skills for Data Engineers in 2021

Career Insights Featured Post 2021 data engineeringposted by ODSC Team January 11, 2021

Data engineering is an increasingly sought after job role, and despite a tumultuous 2020, the chart above showed it’s more in demand than ever. Due to the pandemic, jobs were scarce in April but quickly rebounded before the traditional summer lull hit. Demand increased significantly in... Read more

Tips to Survive and Thrive in the Remote-First Data Workforce

Business + Management Career Insightsposted by ODSC Community January 7, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has super-charged the trend of remote work around the world. Rather than a continued gradual transition towards remote-friendliness, many industries have been thrown head-first into the remote-first experiment. While it seems feasible to think that this would have ended poorly from a productivity... Read more

How to Speak Data in Plain English

Career Insightsposted by Jordan Bean December 28, 2020

The ability to analyze and model data has improved dramatically over the past decade, but our ability to communicate it has not. Data science bootcamps and programs have sprung up promising 6-figure jobs in exchange for learning to code. For many analysts, though, coding is only... Read more

The 5 Skills You Need to Start Machine Learning

Career Insights Featured Post Math Statisticsposted by ODSC Team November 24, 2020

With any new skill, hobby, or career path, you likely have more questions than answers. How do I get started? What skills do I need to focus on first? What sources do I trust to learn all of this? Data science and machine learning are no... Read more

Data Engineer Jobs on the Rise – Skills Needed and Who’s Hiring

Career Insights Featured Post data engineeringposted by Sheamus October 12, 2020

If you review the schedule or contents of any data science learning platform, such as with the Ai+ Training Platform, you’ll notice that data engineering is a primary focus. That’s no surprise, as data engineer is currently one of the fastest-growing roles. Job site, DICE’s, recent... Read more