Ask HN: What's the state of the job market in data science and machine learning? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's the state of the job market in data science and machine learning?

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Post by vikascoder » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 6:07 AM UTC

simonhughes22 wrote: post #65

I am the Chief Data Scientist of Dice.com. If you are interested in working as a junior Data Scientist, and are smart and hard working, please apply here: http://careeropportunities.dhigroupinc.com/ . The position is a telecommute role. We will absolutely consider people with no data science experience, so long as they demonstrate an aptitude for data science \ machine learning and can code.

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Re: Ask HN: What's the state of the job market in data science and machine learning?

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Post by manbilla » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 6:20 AM UTC

I am currently an MIS graduate student with 3 years of SAP functional experience. After this boring stint and hearing the hype around Data Science, I decided to give it a try (Decent statistics and engineering skills but no coding expertise. I also finished MOOCs and am currently working on some small projects during the holidays). Considering average pay as a prominent factor, what is a better option - Learning extra SAP skills (HANA etc) and try for a job in SAP or diving into Data Science completely and try to start as an entry level Data Analyst.

Re: Ask HN: What's the state of the job market in data science and machine learning?

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Post by jczhang » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 6:32 AM UTC

simonhughes22 wrote: post #65

I am the Chief Data Scientist of Dice.com. If you are interested in working as a junior Data Scientist, and are smart and hard working, please apply here: http://careeropportunities.dhigroupinc.com/ . The position is a telecommute role. We will absolutely consider people with no data science experience, so long as they demonstrate an aptitude for data science \ machine learning and can code.

Just tried applying, but the page for the data scientist remote position doesn't load correctly.

Re: Ask HN: What's the state of the job market in data science and machine learning?

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Post by praveer13 » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 6:47 AM UTC

This thread is really depressing as someone currently going through a bootcamp. (dataquest) Is it more realistic to aspire for data engineering/analyst roles?

Re: Ask HN: What's the state of the job market in data science and machine learning?

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Post by pknerd » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 7:32 AM UTC

Off Topic: What will you advice to someone who writes code in Python(scraping, mining) and have a done of ML by wathing Udacity courses, how can I polish myself to get into position for a job?

Re: Ask HN: What's the state of the job market in data science and machine learning?

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Post by hamilyon2 » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 9:06 AM UTC

There is certainly a big market for both data analysts and system builders here in Moscow. Most want a person with credentials, e.g. Yandex school of data analisys. Field is rather on fire with big companies investing a lot of money in it

Re: Ask HN: What's the state of the job market in data science and machine learning?

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Post by drew » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 9:07 AM UTC

ma2rten wrote: post #76

drew wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is DS is really 2-3 different disciplines under one nebulous title. What you're describing is folks who are prototyping and productionizing models. That's definitely in short supply, but random STEM PhDs are in no way competitive for those roles unless they're coming from CS programs + have work experience in production engineering. But that's by no means all of the DS field. There are lots of DS jobs whe…

I was part of the Data Science team in my previous company. We mainly build models for production, but we also were responsible for generating both daily and ad hoc reports. We tried to hire someone to take over the reporting part, but we found out even that requires engineering skills. This role ended up to even more difficult to hire for because it's hard to find someone who has the engineering skills but wants to…

Yeah, in my org we have a dedicated data engineering team that owns the pipeline and production data systems plus an analytics team that owns reporting and making data available to non-technical data consumers. That leaves complex research work for data scientists who are (in theory, anyway) building on top of stable data infrastructure and good data sources and free from ad hoc reporting work.

Re: Ask HN: What's the state of the job market in data science and machine learning?

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Post by IndianAstronaut » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 9:24 AM UTC

hardtke wrote: post #11

I hire machine learning engineers and data scientists. In my opinion there is a great shortage of truly qualified machine learning engineers. A lot of people are entering the market with a general knowledge of machine learning tools. These people should be considered analysts or product data scientists. When it comes to people that can build machine learning systems that work at scale, they are very rarely available…

Someone who can build models and someone who can scale it are 2 different people and professions. Data scientist vs data engineer.

Re: Ask HN: What's the state of the job market in data science and machine learning?

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Post by curiousgal » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 9:27 AM UTC

drew wrote: post #68

rm999 wrote: post #23

Speaking for NYC, but I imagine silicon valley is similar. The supply-demand dynamics have changed a lot in the last couple years. I'd roughly break it out into two groups: people with work experience + strong software development skills, and those without. The first group is in higher demand than ever, and tend to add a lot of value to companies that really need it. The second group has gotten extremely crowded, esp…

The problem is DS is really 2-3 different disciplines under one nebulous title. What you're describing is folks who are prototyping and productionizing models. That's definitely in short supply, but random STEM PhDs are in no way competitive for those roles unless they're coming from CS programs + have work experience in production engineering. But that's by no means all of the DS field. There are lots of DS jobs whe…

In France, and other Francophone countries, Statistics and Information Analysis is an engineering discipline.

Re: Ask HN: What's the state of the job market in data science and machine learning?

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Post by BigJeffeRonaldo » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 10:43 AM UTC

caminante wrote: post #3

Currently, Gartner analysts place ML at the "peak" of its Hype Cycle for Emerging Tech [0] with a runway of 2-5 years for mainstream adoption. [0] http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3412017

It was past the peak last year, i.e. machine learning somehow went backwards up thr hype cycle over the past year according to Gartner. Maybe due to deep learning news stories over the past year+.

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