Is data science dying? Is the data science job oversaturated? Is it too late to get into data science?

Recently, these are the most frequently asked questions on my YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, and even Instagram.

These questions appear to stem from three main sources of doubt:

1. They think that the…

My work was recently plagiarized. Someone directly copied all of the code from one of my videos. They made it into an article on this very platform (a different publication than TDS) without any accreditation. …

I’m feeling stuck.

In my current work and in the content I create (videos and blog posts), I feel like I’ve begun to stall out. Most of the consumers of my content are at the start of their data science journey. …

I would say that my data science learning path was fairly traditional. I did my undergrad in economics and have master’s degrees in global commerce and computer science (concentration in machine learning and artificial intelligence). I learned my business acumen from my coursework during my commerce degree and picked up…

A personal website presence is a great way to showcase your work. It can also be extremely valuable for the data science job search. A portfolio gives you the ability to share a high level overview of your data science projects. It takes a deeper dive into your projects than…

I just finished Ultralearning by Scott Young, and I thought that the concepts in this book could help many people who are looking to learn data science. …

Many people think of learning data science as a linear process. In truth, it is a messy progression that is closer to a series of plateaus.

Luckily, there is already a pretty good generalized learning model that explains how these plateaus work. This model was created in the 1970’s by…

In my work as a data science consultant, I constantly see companies struggling to effectively integrate data science into their current workflow. …