Lessons in My First Year as a Data Scientist

Tommy Blanchard
Nov 5 · 4 min read
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I wrote down these thoughts after my first year as a data scientist. Now, a couple of years later, they still ring true. For context, my first year I worked in a healthcare company where the data science group acts kind of like a consulting firm — we would take on projects to create predictive models and provide other analytical support. For that reason, a lot of the lessons I’ve learned have more to do with the…

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Tommy Blanchard

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Tommy is a data scientist, currently working at Bose Corporation. He has his PhD in brain and cognitive sciences.

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