Getting a job in data science Let me ask you a question, what do the following categories of people have in common: University students STEM graduates Humanities graduates Professionals over the age of 30 Moms returning to work Many of these people want to become data scientists! And this comes Read more…
How can I become a data scientist? This is a question I have been asked many times in different forms: I have no knowledge in coding, can I become a data scientist? I did some statistics in my undergrad, can I become a data scientist? Does a data scientist need Read more…
Becoming a data scientist I’ve met many people who want to become data scientists, but are not sure how long they need to study for to achieve that. These days, with the plethora of content out on the web, and great data science schools like Datalyst Academy , it has become Read more…
Are you interested in data science? Make sure to join my on-demand webinar where I talk about what it’s like to be a data scientist! The post-covid landscape COVID-19 brought many changes in the world. From AI to cryptocurrencies, to education and the economy, the virus has left us in Read more…
Are you interested in data science? Make sure to join my on-demand webinar where I talk about what it’s like to be a data scientist ! What is the best way to become a data scientist? This is a question I am asked all too often. I have been a Read more…
MOOCs There is no question that university degrees are being disrupted. Over the last 10 years, we have seen multiple innovations in the area of education. The first major innovation was MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) and websites like Coursera and Udacity. MOOCs opened up education from some of the Read more…
The problem with data science courses There are many resources, free and paid, for learning data science. However, most of them are not really complete, and they have the wrong focus. The modern data scientist needs to be able to combine various skills, which not many courses take into account. Read more…
This year I had the chance to teach Social Media Analytics at the Cyprus International Institute of Management. Social media analytics is not really recognised as an independent field. It is more of a collection of techniques applied to data gathered from social media. However, I believe that we should Read more…
Learning about data science With the increasing popularity of data science, there are now countless online tutorials on machine learning, data science and statistics, Python and R. Most of these tutorials follow the same pattern: learn some basic commands, go through a simple use case, apply some algorithms and discuss Read more…
Sports analytics is a fascinating topic and I have written about it many times, and also released courses in that area, in topics such as how to predict sports outcomes. A particularly interesting piece of work I did in the past was to study the use of machine learning for Read more…
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