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Are You Too Late to Start Your Data Science Journey?— 2023 edition
A lot has changed since 2021.
Back in 2021, I wrote the article “Are You Too Late to Start Your Data Science Journey?” where I mentioned my thoughts on feeling to miss the train.
If you feel the same, spare 5 minutes to read the article. I’m quite positive that it’ll change your mind.
Lots of things have changed in the data science ecosystem since 2021. Well, we don’t actually need to go back that much. Lots of things have changed in the last three months.
But the question remains the same: Are you too late to start your data science journey?
My answer is slightly different than it was in 2021. It’s a more rigid NO.
The potential value of data remains more or less the same. The way we extract and make use of data changes rapidly. This is mainly due to the proliferation of tools.
Back in the day (I mean a few years ago), natural language generation (NLG) was considered to be a promising tool when a model filled the blank spot in the following sentence correctly:
I was born in Mexico so I can speak _____.
In just a few years, generative AI has experienced a mind-blowing improvement in terms of the…
