Data Science Career Advice: Blogs, Articles, Tutorials, and Examples

How a Start in Reality Television Showed Me Success in Data Science

Career Insights Business|Data Science Careers|Data Science Jobs|Non-Technical|Tutorialposted by Megan Elizabeth Shulby, ODSC March 28, 2018

How did I become a success in data science? Fun trivia fact: I have a background in reality television. No, I wasn’t on camera, but I was one of the guys behind the scenes making sure all the magic happened. Somehow, now I am immersed in... Read more

ODSC Call for Bloggers

Career Insightsposted by ODSC Team March 22, 2018

Call for Bloggers: We Want to Hear Your Voice and Perspective! Are you passionate about topics ranging from artificial intelligence to technology in business to open source programming languages and beyond? Do you enjoy sharing your expertise, research, insights and stories that can help the open... Read more

Stats on ODSC East 2018 to Look Forward to

Career Insights Data analysis|Data Science Jobs|ODSC East 2018posted by Open Data Science March 19, 2018

Want to learn more about data science? Want to update yourself on the latest research and trends in the space? If you want to do this, think about attending a data science event like a meet-up or a conference in the near future. You don’t have... Read more

How to Get a Start with a Career in Data Science

“The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.” – Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations In... Read more

Tendencies of Data Engineers and Scientists

Career Insightsposted by Will McGinnis January 14, 2018

A long time ago I wrote a short post on the differences between data engineers and data scientists. My reasoning back then was that a data engineer is someone who applies engineering methodologies to data problems, while a data scientist is someone who applies the scientific method... Read more

Advice For New And Junior Data Scientists – Hamel Husain l ODSC West 2017

Career Insights Conferencesposted by Hamel Husain January 5, 2018

Bio: Hamel has experience building data analytics and predictive modeling solutions for a wide range of industries, including: hospitality, telecom, retail, restaurant and entertainment. He has built large data science teams (50+) from the ground up and has deep experience building solutions as an individual contributor.... Read more

ODSC East Interviews: Kishore Aradya

Career Insights Conferences Interviewposted by George McIntire, ODSC January 3, 2018

The following Q&A is part of a series of interviews conducted with speakers at the 2017 ODSC East conference in Boston. The interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. This interview is with Kishore Aradya, , whose talk was entitled “From the Trenches: Managing and Building Data... Read more

A 3-minute guide to enjoying your conferences

Career Insights Conferencesposted by ODSC Team October 26, 2017

There are a wide range of conferences to attend out there. In 2017, there have been over 245 Data Science, Machine learning and AI conferences, summits and events happening all over the world. Industry surveys suggest that 40 to 45 percent of Data Scientists have... Read more

Web Scraping Indeed for Key Data Science Job Skills

Career Insights Data Wrangling Modeling Research Data Science Jobsposted by Jesse Steinweg-Woods September 20, 2017

Editor’s Note: Check out our 2017 State of Data Science Jobs Report to compare stats, sentiments, and POVs. *available in Spanish As many of you probably know, being a data scientist requires a large skill set . . . Credit: Swami Chandrasekaran To master all of... Read more

A Data Science Guide for Managers

Blog Career Insightsposted by Diego Arenas, ODSC July 30, 2017

Are these terms familiar? Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Streaming Analytics, Data Science. In this post we will expand the executive’s knowledge and those aspiring to be by providing summaries by decade of the Data Science industry, and by comparing... Read more