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Thought this was interesting. Across 160 teams of researchers, just about all failed to make good life outcome predictions on things like GPA, evictions, layoffs, and others. Data followed 4.5k families across 15 years, with 13k features (varied over time). Haven't looked at it directly yet, but will be turning the docs and data inside out... In the meantime, authors claim this as showing the limits of ML. Oh, and it's published in PNAS, so you know there's some big publication energy there.
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/15/8398
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No, you don't, but you need to have other marketable skills to substitute for it, like coding skills and/or knowledge of data architecture.
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I would add to that list - domain knowledge and non-technical skills like management.
Not entirely, but some data analytics roles certainly require more math than others. A little linear algebra and variance math go a long way. Without those things you can do a lot of dashboards and rules but hard to do proper forecasting or optimization.
No- sometimes a less technical background with strong suits in soft skills helps you stand out on a team. Problem solving, curiosity, ability to translate complex information into everyday language, and excel/viz skills can give you a robust career.
Define “successful data career”?
Turns out politics and leet code can make you rich.
I’m bad at both. Sigh.