Tag: career

Do you recall when data scientists were the talk of the town? Dubbed the sexiest job of the 21st century, they boasted a unique blend of knowledge and skills. I...

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I will skip the usual “I’m thrilled and excited…”. I’ll just say it. As of today, I am the CTO of wizer.me, a platform for teachers and educators to create...

In January 2020, I started a new experiment. I quit what was a dream job and became a freelancer. Today, the experiment is over. This post serves as omphaloskepsis -...

I’m excited to announce that I’m joining MyBiotics Pharma Ltd as the company’s Head of Data and Bioinformatics. I have been working with this fantastic company and its remarkable people...

From time to time, people send me emails asking for career advice. Here’s one recent exchange. Hi Boris, I am currently trying to decide on a career move and would...

Will Cray [link] is a fresh M.Sc. in Computer Science and considers becoming a freelancer in the Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence / Data Science field. Will asked for advice...

Here’s an appealing ad that I saw How to become a Python professional in 42 hours? I’ll tell you how. There is no way. I don’t know any field of...

Did you know that J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, submitted her books 13 times before it was accepted? Did you know that Thomas Edison tried again and again,...

My stand on learning data science is known: I think that learning “data science” as a career move is a mistake. You may read this long rant of mine to...

Recently, I stumbled upon a report called “Understanding Today’s Chief Data Scientist” published by an HR company called Heidrick & Struggles. This document tries to draw a profile of the...

Recently, I gave a data science career advice, in which I suggested the perspective data scientists not to study data science as a career move. Two of my main arguments...

Today, I’ve read a tweet by Sinan Aral (@sinanaral) from the MIT: https://twitter.com/sinanaral/status/917162872362463232 I’ve just realized that Ikigai is what happened to my career as a data scientist. There was...

It seems that career in data science is the hottest topic many data scientists are asked about. To help an aspiring data scientist, I’m reposting here a FAQ by my...

If you know me in person or follow my blog, you know that I have a keen interest in teaching. Indeed, besides being a full-time data scientist at Automattic, I...

It’s hard to overestimate how I adore StackOverflow. One of the recent blog posts on StackOverflow.blog is “What you need to know to start a career as a data scientist”...

March 2019: Two years after the completion of this post I wrote a follow-up. Read it here. February 2023: Almost six years after this post, I checked my predictions against...