[usgroup]

whats your background? And what sort of job are you looking to get from it?

If you want to be an actual scientist then do something thats actually scientific: elaborate an experiment design, collect your own data, analyse it and draw conclusions from it.

For example, what’s the relationship between crime in San Francisco and Starbucks locations? How’s the relationship conditioned on the weather? Does the size of the parking lot adjacent to Starbucks meaningfully effect crime independent of location?

I’m a little biased but there are too many script kiddies. “Scientists” that copy/paste scripts and “analyse” by calling APIs, and don’t know how anything works. Data science ala Kaggle.

[koots]

I'm a phd student in cs focusing on algorithms. I want to work as software engineer/data scientist.