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The company I work for is currently looking for people interested in machine learning & data analysis and I've interviewed a fair number of people that have a b
by lukatmyshu 16y ago
The company I work for is currently looking for people interested in machine learning & data analysis and I've interviewed a fair number of people that have a background/story similar to yours. The one piece of advice I have is to spend time learning how to take raw logs and munge/join/split them into a format that you can stick into R. Get good at a scripting language, understand what map-reduce is, play with PIG or Hive if you can. Are you considering leaving your PhD and going into industry (it sounds like you are).
- ajdecon 16y agoThanks for the advice. Any advice on the best scripting languages to play with on this? I've got some experience with python and I'm working on getting better, but I don't know if there's a better choice in this domain. Industry or a different academic program are both options in my head right now. I don't love the idea of leaving my PhD but I also don't love the idea of spending more years on something I find uninteresting.