I had a deep introspection about my career transition recently, and this tweet matches my experience pretty well. I also would like to share some thoughts on this topic as a former Materials Sci PhD who transitioned from clean tech to data science / machine learning.
My PI at Stanford was …
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I attended the NeurIPS 2019 Workshop - Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning remotely on 2019-12-14. Below are the notes I took from the talks that I attended (which is just a small subset).
Note: Many of the discussions on this workshop is a follow-up to the paper of the same …
more ...Came across the article on Nature, The reality behind solar power's next star material.
Perovskites solar cells has came a long way since my PhD research. I remember my excitement when my solid state dye-sensitized solar cells (predecessor to perovskites solar cells) cracked 4% efficiency... and now the single junction …
more ...I and two Capital One colleagues (Ariel M'ndange-Pfupfu and Marina Sergeeva) gave a talk at PyCon 2019 titled Lessons learned from building a community of Python users among thousands of analysts.
This talk highlighted our multi-pronged approaches to overcome organizational inertia to build a community of Python users, provide Python …
more ...How are multi junction solar cells are fabricated and encapsulated?
Assuming you are talking about III-V multi-junction solar cells, they are usually deposited by Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD). Sometimes, Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) is used, especially in a research environment (where throughput is not critical).
The article …
What's the most lightweight job scheduler for Python that can be used by a data scientist?
cron should work if you are looking to just run some python script at a scheduled time.
If you are doing something more complex in your job scheduler, such as chained tasks …
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more ...Do employers looking for a data analyst, data scientist, or data engineer care if you obtain a new degree in a subject like data science that includes machine learning, etc.?
Having interviewed many data scientist candidates at Capital One, I can say that we care more about "whether …
As an aspiring data scientist, which statistical environment/package should I learn first: SAS or Minitab?
Is "neither" an answer? I’d argue that Python or R should be your first tool to learn as an aspiring data scientist.
SAS is a proprietary software that can be expensive …
What should a resume look like for an entry level data scientist?
If you consider the venn diagram of data science below, an ideal candidate will have skills in three different areas:
The first two are more …