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3 Hacks to Accelerate Your
Data Science Career
Alexey Grigorev
Lead Data Scientist at OLX Group
Founder at DataTalks.Club
2010
2012
2015
2018
What this is NOT about
● Getting into infrastructure
● Becoming a great data engineer
● Becoming a full-stack data scientist
● Learning to play violin
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Full-stack data scientist
● Cover the whole project lifecycle (follow CRISP-DM)
● Invest in software engineering
● It’s not just about technical stills
● Have a T-shaped profile
● Focus on what matters
Focus on what matters??? How?
● Fail multiple projects
● Work at a startup
● Learn rapid prototyping
How Your Machine Learning Project Will Fail - Elena Samuylova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVxHQH2-PMo
Hack #1:
Be friends with your PM
What I learned from my PMs
● Prioritization
● Talking to other teams
● Planning
● Learning more about the users
● Marketing myself
3 hacks to accelerate your data science career
3 hacks to accelerate your data science career
Hack #2:
Be visible
How can I be visible?
● Demos! Show even small things
● Make frontend for your models
Not watch
How can I be visible?
● Demos! Show even small things
● Make frontend for your models
● Speak at internal events
● Write to speak
Hack #3:
Be a part of the community
Vingrad
3 hacks to accelerate your data science career
3 hacks to accelerate your data science career
3 hacks to accelerate your data science career
3 hacks to accelerate your data science career
Bonus Hack:
Find a mentor
3 Hacks to Accelerate Your DS Career
● Hack #1: Be friends with your PM
● Hack #2: Be visible
● Hack #3: Be a part of a community
@Al_Grigor
agrigorev
DataTalks.Club

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