Topic: Career Advice

Here are my writings on my career, and advice I have for those just starting out.

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  A Career Involves Luck: My Annotated Resume
  My career has been a great success so far and a lot of that success has been due to luck. In this post I catalog all the lucky breaks I can remember in the form of a resume.
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  The Pyramid and the Spire: Management and Individual Contributor Tracks
  Data science has left the era of the Unicorn and entered the era of the team, but that means there is now a whole spectrum of data science jobs. Here is what they do.
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  Data Science, Compensation, and Asking for Money
  Advice about data science salaries and examples from my career of negotiating your offer.
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  The Data Science Spectrum:
  From Analyst to Machine Learning
  Data science has left the era of the Unicorn and entered the era of the team, but that means there is now a whole spectrum of data science jobs. Here is what they do.
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  The Data Science Split:
  From Unicorns to Teams
  When data science started the job covered everything from setting up databases to running experiments to making models. But finding Unicorns was impossible; something had to give.
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  Data Science Interview Practice: Machine Learning Case Study
  A common interview type for data scientists and machine learning engineers is the ML case study. Read on for an example of how I solve them!
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  Data Science Interview Practice: Data Manipulation
  I often get asked how to practice data science interviews, so here is a practice dataset with a set of questions to answer. Good luck!
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  Get Things Done by Tracking Them
  As I've gotten more senior as a data scientist, I've found I have to keep track of more and more things. This is how I do it!
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  The Gender Pay Gap in Data Science Salaries
  How do the salaries of women data scientists compare to those of men? This month we explore pay by gender and location.
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  Data Science Salaries
  How do data scientist salaries vary by experience and location? Read on to find out!
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  My Academic Bully at CERN
  Getting my PhD was mostly a great experience, but one woman made my life hell for a short time at CERN. It's tough to write about, but I thought I owed it to myself and others.
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  Should I Go To Insight Data Science?
  Insight promises an easy transition from academia to a career in data science or machine learning, but is it the right program for you? I have a few words of advice offered from experience.
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  The Typical Successful Career Starts with Rejection
  When I applied for graduate school I was rejected, not by a few good grad schools, but by all of them! But thanks to a little kindness, I was able to continue onward.
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  Should I Get a PhD?
  In 2009, having little or no money in my purse, I thought I would go to graduate school in physics. But was it the right idea? And should you follow in my footsteps?