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Data-Driven Interviewing: Hiring a Data Scientist

Business + Management Career Insights Guest contributor Career Hiringposted by ODSC Community April 14, 2020

In its eight years of working with hiring teams, Insight has seen its Fellows go through thousands of interviews. In this article, we share the data-driven advice gained from our unique vantage point on hiring data scientists. Whether you’d like to get started interviewing, overhaul your process, or just... Read more

How Not to Get Started in Data Science

Career Insights Career Data Science Jobsposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC October 2, 2019

Data science is a hot field, but some job seekers are having a hard time getting a foot in the door. Job posters are citing mismatches in skills needed on the job and the skills potential job seekers have. If you play your cards right, you could turn this... Read more

How To Stay Busy While Looking for a Data Science Job

Career Insights Conferences Career data science job data science job postingposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC September 24, 2019

Just because you’re in-between jobs or looking for your first data science job doesn’t mean you get to sit around watching television and eating chips. Okay, there’s a little of that, but keeping up to date with what’s happening in the data science world as you search for your... Read more

The Programmer Myth of Data Science

Business + Management Featured Post Accelerate AI Careerposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC June 5, 2019

If you’re thinking of hiring a computer programmer as your data scientist, you may want to back up. While the two careers have a lot in common – writing programs, working with sophisticated machines, creating products that provide business value – putting “programmer” on your job description and hoping... Read more

What is an AI Engineer?

Business + Management Featured Post Accelerate AI Career Opinionsposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC June 3, 2019

AI is coming for your business, and at the most recent ODSC East keynote, Michael Stonebraker of MIT and Tamr laid it all out for us. If you aren’t ready to hire the experts, you won’t be ready. AI Engineers are going to be the next biggest thing because... Read more

The Citizen Data Science Path To Becoming A Data Scientist

Career Insights Featured Post Careerposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC April 3, 2019

Data science is a wide open field, so how do you get in on the action? Much of what you read about the job field cites master’s degrees and PhDs, but the truth is most companies don’t need such high-level skills. Citizen data scientists bridge an essential gap between... Read more

How to Learn Data Science for Free

Career Insights Featured Post Careerposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC March 26, 2019

I get asked all the time, “How can I become a data scientist?” The query comes from all sorts of people who see the many opportunities presented by this growing and dynamic field. My initial response is to obtain the educational foundation for doing data science: computer science, applied... Read more

Kick-Start Your Data Science Career By Sharing Your Work

Career Insights Career Career insightposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC December 12, 2018

I’m asked all the time, on places like LinkedIn and Quora, how a newbie can kick-start a data science career in the field to get noticed and get hired. I’ve responded in a number of different ways in the past couple of years, but now I’m confident the best... Read more