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McKinsey & Company Hey folks!
Was wondering what sort of life sciences projects does usually the Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Company take on?
Commercial, access and pricing, M&A, transformation, implementation? (all of them perhaps?)
Basically, what would someone with an LS background be mainly working on in these firms on a day-to-day basis?
Thanks!
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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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DataCamp is a great option
Learn the basics through codecademy or whatever learning platform you prefer, personal project
W3schools is a great place for beginners
Local community college or some sort of free in person class at your public library etc. I personally needed a foundation before being able to feel comfortable enough to be self guided.
Same here. I went to NYU SPS night class
Depends on what you want to learn it for. Software engineering, data analysis, etc. choose a training that focuses on the part you’re interested in.
We have ChatGPT now, so asking it questions about everything is way better than most previous ways of learning. Previously I would have said "You're going to forget everything you learn within five years, so take organized notes so you can find them and refresh yourself". But ChatGPT can refresh you on anything you can remember knowing.
It's also superior to textbooks because it can take the subject you're confused about and go as deep as you want. I get a ton of mileage out of questions like "Why would you ever do X? Can't you just do Y?" until I really understand X.
Buy the premium version, extremely worth it.
I would start with an object oriented language like Java and then transition to python using ChatGPT. It more important to understand what you need the code to do, the syntax is super easy with ChatGPT
W3schools is a great place for beginners
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