The State of Data Science and Machine Learning
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#2Comparing my own situation, I fit in pretty much in the median for my field, age and salary.
It'll be interesting to see what folks dig up over the coming weeks from this dataset.
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#3Really worthy insight. Especially for people like me, who wants to get a deeper understanding of the ecosystem before being an actual data scientist !
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#4For interest, the raw data is published here:
https://www.kaggle.com/kaggle/kaggle-survey-2017
And some early analysis from our community here: https://www.kaggle.com/crawford/analyzing-the-analyzers
Some things that jumped out at me:
1. more people learn data science and ML from MOOCs than university courses
2. Tensorflow the tech people most want to learn in the next year
3. 40% of people survey spend >1-2 hours per week searching for another job. Surprising given all companies complain about the difficulty in finding data scientists/machine learners.
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#5Comparing my own situation, I fit in pretty much in the median for my field, age and salary. It'll be interesting to see what folks dig up over the coming weeks from this dataset.
Nothing warms our icy, cold, statistical hearts quite like hearing that a randomly chosen person is near the median. <3
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#6Comparing my own situation, I fit in pretty much in the median for my field, age and salary. It'll be interesting to see what folks dig up over the coming weeks from this dataset.
Nothing warms our icy, cold, statistical hearts quite like hearing that a randomly chosen person is near the median. <3
Unlike the statistician who has his legs in the freezer and his head in the oven but who is on average the right temperature.
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#7For interest, the raw data is published here: https://www.kaggle.com/kaggle/kaggle-survey-2017 And some early analysis from our community here: https://www.kaggle.com/crawford/analyzing-the-analyzers Some things that jumped out at me: 1. more people learn data science and ML from MOOCs than university courses 2. Tensorflow the tech people most want to learn in the next year 3. 40% of people survey spend >1-2 hours pe…
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"There's a skills shortage (at the price we want to pay)"
Re: The State of Data Science and Machine Learning
#8For interest, the raw data is published here: https://www.kaggle.com/kaggle/kaggle-survey-2017 And some early analysis from our community here: https://www.kaggle.com/crawford/analyzing-the-analyzers Some things that jumped out at me: 1. more people learn data science and ML from MOOCs than university courses 2. Tensorflow the tech people most want to learn in the next year 3. 40% of people survey spend >1-2 hours pe…
Re 3. "There's a skills shortage (at the price we want to pay)"
I wish some of these companies would embrace having offices in places other than those with very high cost of living.
Re: The State of Data Science and Machine Learning
#9For interest, the raw data is published here: https://www.kaggle.com/kaggle/kaggle-survey-2017 And some early analysis from our community here: https://www.kaggle.com/crawford/analyzing-the-analyzers Some things that jumped out at me: 1. more people learn data science and ML from MOOCs than university courses 2. Tensorflow the tech people most want to learn in the next year 3. 40% of people survey spend >1-2 hours pe…
Re 3. "There's a skills shortage (at the price we want to pay)"
Yeh. The median salary for a machine learning engineer, which is definitely higher than what most companies are used to paying (even for software eng roles).
My argument is that machine learning also higher leverage than most roles. One algorithm written by one machine learner can generate a huge ROI. Think of an algorithm to predict loan defaults or customer churn for a bank. That algorithm in the hands of a great machine learner can generate a huge ROI.
Re: The State of Data Science and Machine Learning
#10For interest, the raw data is published here: https://www.kaggle.com/kaggle/kaggle-survey-2017 And some early analysis from our community here: https://www.kaggle.com/crawford/analyzing-the-analyzers Some things that jumped out at me: 1. more people learn data science and ML from MOOCs than university courses 2. Tensorflow the tech people most want to learn in the next year 3. 40% of people survey spend >1-2 hours pe…
>3. 40% of people survey spend >1-2 hours per week searching for another job. Surprising given all companies complain about the difficulty in finding data scientists/machine learners.
Not too surprised about this. I think a lot of people who go into the field want to do more interesting things than what they find being used in the field. I don't think pay is necessarily the gap here, as others have pointed out, so much as interesting work (or at least the intersection of interesting work and pay).