Self-Taught Data Scientists Fail to Go Deep Enough

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5 min readJan 16, 2022

I know I did.

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I would like to start by declaring that I’m a self-taught data scientist. Actually, it is better to say it in this way: I have managed to land a data scientist job after a long period of self-study.

It took me 2 years to get my first job as a data scientist. I took online courses, read and wrote articles, watched tutorials, did some…

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