Description
When I first started studying data science, I would read every article I could get my hands on about people who had done what I was trying to do: become a self-taught data scientist. These articles…
Summary
- How reading these articles is detrimental to aspiring data scientists.
- become a self-taught data scientist.
- As someone who already has an education in software development and university level mathematics (otherwise known as someone who has some experience with some of the components of becoming a data scientist), I see a couple of glaringly obvious issues with these articles that get wallpapered with hope and the glamour of hustle as a way to get views and inspire people that they too can become data scientists in less than a year with no prior training or experience.
- Over time, those pieces of information will transform themselves into a career as a data scientist.