Independent Data Science Education Has A Credibility Problem. And It’s Getting Worse.
Interns hawking courses, teaching techniques without context and more terrible side effects from the DIY data science bubble.
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More Data Science Grads Are Taking This Unconventional Path Into The Field
40,000 feet in the air my eyelids grow heavy as audio from the Social Network blares in my ears. On long flights the rhythm of Aaron Sorkin’s ping-pong dialogue makes it the perfect pass out movie.
At the moment, the Winklevoss twins (Winklevi as Jesse Eisenberg’s Zuckerberg corrects opposing lawyers) are meeting with Harvard president Larry Summers; Sommers delivers a mic drop.
“Harvard undergraduates believe that inventing a job is better than finding one.”
Even though Sorkin’s version of Sommers uttered the line a decade ago, we find ourselves in the golden age of job invention.
The creator economy is booming, freelance opportunities abound and seemingly everyone is hawking a digital product.
