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Jake Klamka spoke at Caltech a few months back about his Insight Data Science Fellowship–a program designed to help science PhDs transition into jobs in data science.  The program guides scientists in packaging skills they already have so that employers can easily see the relevance and value to their business.  Jake’s own initial difficulty getting […]

Jessica Kirkpatrick wrote a great post describing her move from astronomical research to a data science job at Yammer.  (We were classmates in grad school.)  She discusses the technical skills she needed to learn (IDL alone won’t get you a tech job) as well as the differences between business and academic culture.  (Peter Fiske’s book Put […]