Background#
In 2021, the founder of Data Talks Club Alexey Grigorev and I recorded a podcast, which is available in video format on YouTube. You can also listen to the audio version on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Anchor here.
In the podcast, Alexey and I discussed:
- My background
- Data Analytics vs. Data Science
- Skills needed for Data Analytics and Data Science
- Benefits of getting a master’s degree
- Useful online courses
- How a project management background can help with a career transition
- Essential skills PMs need to become data analysts
- Moving from working with spreadsheets to working with Python
- Kaggle
- Productionizing machine learning models
- Gaining experience while studying
- Job searching
- The gap between theory and practice
- A learning plan for transitioning
- Getting involved in projects
I hope our conversation will be helpful for aspiring Data Scientists and for anyone who has always wanted to make a career switch into this field but was hesitant to take the leap.
Useful links#
- Record Transcript: https://datatalks.club/podcast/s03e01-from-pm-to-ds.html
- Notes prepared by me with all the info: https://ksenialeg.notion.site/DataTalks-Club-7597e55f476040a5921db58d48cf718f