Data Science and PhD study

When I was applying for the PhD study I was thinking about it as opportunity to have chance to use all techniques, programming languages, methods, processes and technologies in practical way and delivery something reasonable which supports my professional growth and development. And it could stands as proof that I am really keen to learn and improve in this field and I have passion to do Data Science.

I was thinking about it again when I have read this article The Modern Data Nerd Isn’t as Nerdy as You Think on Wired about Data Nerds who are currently in charge of Data Science departments or in similar role and apply their experiences and knowledge and usually they do not have PhD. More over they do not have master degree, just bachelor degree. Or in case they have any kind of degree it is not from field close to Data Science.

Interviews to Data Scientist role

After almost year of self study of Data Science courses via Coursera, DSE program and another MOOC pages I had chance to go to Data Scientist role interviews. So far two.

First one was a couple weeks ago I was in interview to the Researcher / Data Scientist position. Mainly about prediction models, math, statistics and data mining/machine learning. Mostly in R connected with Hadoop and some other mathematical tools. This was the first for such position.

Second one was a couple days ago and it was interview to the purely Data Scientist position. Including all data science work from many different sources with project driven or data driven approach, it depends. This was most recent experience and I hope not a last one.