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Read data blog posts.
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How I Became a Data Scientist Despite Having Been a Math Major

Tim Hopper

"Given this description of how my schooling left me woefully unprepared for a career in data science, one might ask how I have had two jobs with that title. I can think of several (though probably not all) reasons."

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What to consider when using text in data visualizations

Lisa Charlotte Muth

An in-depth explanation on how to use text to enhance the visual appeal and readability of visualizations.

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Data scientists work alone and that's bad

Ethan Rosenthal

"The norm is that of a lonely life for the data scientist. Whether they lie near analytics, machine learning, or elsewhere in the large latent space that spans this ill-defined role, just like in the curse of high-dimensionality, they are likely alone."

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