Any thoughts on learning R Code and moving onto Data science for s finance/tech firm?

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Learning R is a start but there is much more to learn if you are going to be a data scientist.

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You may be able to get a "data science-y" role in a tech firm that does more data visualization and exploration starting out (R is not a "skill", just a tool, it's all about how you use it) but you'll have a very long way to go if you want to do finance which is essentially quant research at a bank/HF

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Depends. What’s your rank?

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Agree with A1. Coding is one thing (should be reasonably easy to teach yourself) but modeling is a whole other beast and much more challenging to learn and be good at it

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