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Yes, You Can: How to Kickstart Your Career as a Data Scientist
Answering frequently asked questions by junior data scientists and data scientists-to-be about first steps towards a DS career
In case you missed it, there’s a pandemic out there, and it forces all of us to shut down all public events. As time goes by, we all begin to understand the impact of the lockdowns, social distancing and absence of gatherings. One of the things we realized, and by “we” I refer to the Algo group at Taboola, where I work, is the impact this has on those who are just beginning their career path or are about to shift it.
We used to host and attend many data science meetups and conferences, and noticed that many junior data scientists and data scientists-to-be used these gatherings to ask for and receive guidance and unofficial consulting regarding their career paths. And now, when all these are canceled, they have no one to reach out. And so, we came up with a new initiative, which we named Algo Boost (algoboost.me), to allow everyone to schedule a 30-minutes, one-on-one Zoom session with us, and get the guidance they seek.
We were stunned by how much the data science community here in Israel, where we’re located, was in need for this. All of our volunteers where fully booked for an…
