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by tfgg 3754 days ago
If you have time, I'd also read something like David Mackay's information theory textbook [1] for more of a Bayesian perspective. Interviewers did seem to appreciate having multiple perspectives and interpretations of basic results, though less practical.

[1] http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/
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nxzero 3754 days ago
Given you're making recommendations on the topic of statistics, exactly how many companies did you talk to reach the recommendations you're providing and what if any bias was there in your job search?
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tfgg 3754 days ago
Good points. I'm coming from a computational physics research background and applied for a few data science positions at startups, a large social network and a private ML research group, so not that many overall, beware of the small sample size.

The smaller startups seemed to want more "data engineering" experience.

What do you mean by "what if any bias was there in your job search"?

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