A Mentor Will Change Your Data Science Career
You need a mentor if you want to become a data scientist ASAP
Becoming a data scientist on your own is possible but slow.
If you’re coming into the field without a foundation or a network to guide you, it could take years. There are a thousand things to learn, and many more rabbit holes dotting the landscape to distract you.
A mentor can help you cut through the cruft, tell you what you need to hear when you need to hear it, and help you achieve your goal sooner.
Mentors certainly made a difference in my data science and machine learning career. Despite years of experience in software engineering, I couldn’t have broken into the field without them.
If you’re lucky enough to have an experienced data scientist as a supervisor in your job, you’ve struck gold. But it’s a new field, and many companies are only now adding their first data scientists. So you may need to find a mentor on your own.
Based on what worked for me, here are a few good reasons to find a coach if you want to become a data scientist.
You don’t know where to start
Learning an algorithm when you have a problem is more efficient than memorizing algorithms in a vacuum.
