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by binarysolo 5039 days ago
Hrm, surprised nobody suggested Craigslist. I bootstrapped myself into a data scientist/consultant with gigs from Craigslist. (Well, grad school helps too, but the initial contract leads were pretty much all from CL.)
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lgieron 5038 days ago
Hey, that's what I'm bootstraping myself into right now - I'm currently three months into my first data science consultancy job (more on the programming/infrastructure side of things - extracting/preparing data, launching large distributed jobs etc.). I'd be delighted to talk with someone who's been in this market longer than myself, but can't really contact you (no e-mail in the profile) - please give out your e-mail address (either in public or just e-mail me) if you'd like to talk.
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marcamillion 5039 days ago
What was the response rate for you?

Because I tried this, and it turned out to be pretty low - like 1 - 2% (which was on the high-end).

So just to get a response, I had to send 50 - 100 emails. Maybe I am misremembering, but it is something like that.

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binarysolo 5039 days ago
Weird. For me it was literally like 10 out of 10 replies. Though I pretty much had it set to search for "data scraping", "data mining", "data science", "big data", "machine learning", and "data analytics", then have it forward gigs/jobs/etc. to me via RSS.
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marcamillion 5037 days ago
Interesting...oh right...I can see why you would get more replies. That's a good idea.

Looking for smaller niches where the respondents won't get 200 replies - is probably a better use case.

That's interesting.

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