“MACHINE LEARNING? YOU ARE GOING INTO A GREAT AREA.” – INTERVIEW WITH TRIPADVIOR’S JEFF PALMUCCI

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WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOUNG PROFESSIONALS LOOKING INTO FINDING THEIR FEET IN DATA SCIENCE?

That is interesting. Because one of the biggest problems right now, I think in machine learning practices is finding good people. Hiring takes a significant part of my day and it is very hard to find good people especially people that know the techniques and understand them well enough to apply them. So if you want to get into this area, machine learning or data science, now is the great time to do it because the demand is high and the supply is low. And what you need to do is prepare yourself and educate yourself – do more than a couple competitions but take the courses and make sure that you work hard. Because one thing about interviewing in this field is that it is very quantitative. You can tell pretty much off the bat if somebody knows what they are talking about. My best advice to somebody going into this area is, first of all I’d say you are going into a great area, you are going to be in high demand but study hard, make sure you know the techniques.

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