HeyJaredInside Data Science
Data scientist and AI developer. After 20 years teaching high school math, I moved into data science in my 40s. I failed interviews, overspent on courses, and chased the wrong skills. I share what’s working so you can get interviews and offers.
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How to Make Your First AI Call in 10 Lines (opens the original)
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The Data Scientist Salary Does Not Exist (opens the original)
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Look up what a data scientist makes and you get 4 answers.PayScale says $103,820.The Bureau of Labor Statistics says $120,230.Indeed says $131,106.Glassdoor says $157,000.Same job title. Same country. Same year. $53,180 between the bottom and the top.That is not a rounding problem. That is somebody’
The 5 Questions I Ask Before I Write Any Code (opens the original)
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My first data science project was an earthquake dashboard.Public data. Clean charts. Filters that worked. I sat back and looked at it and thought, that looks like something a data scientist would make.It did look like that.It also did nothing for anybody.Nobody had asked for it. Nobody was going to open it on a Tuesday morning and do something different because of it. I had built a very tidy answer to a question no one had asked.It took me a long time to understand why that felt like failure whe
1 in 5 Data Science Jobs Now Ask for LLMs (opens the original)
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There is a specific feeling that comes from reading a job posting for a role you thought you were qualified for.You get through the first 3 lines and you are fine. Python. SQL. Cloud platforms. You have done all of that.Then you hit a line that was not there last year.Experience building with LLMs.And you sit there deciding whether to apply anyway.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cUbl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep
The Data Science Interview Stopped Being About the Model (opens the original)
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