> statistics is a three year long grueling applied maths degree, and condensing it to three weeks is silly.
I agree. I was in a very prestige organization and they didn't know what a statistician really do and just hired CS machine learning PHDs. Even those people don't even know what statistician does. One person gave me ISLR when I ask for advice to get hire at this prestige place (I did an equivalent of this over several graduate courses in statistic program).
Another person proudly told me that in his project, he was using GLM stating he knows GLM. I asked what was the link function and that person stated he didn't know and it's somewhere in the code...
I've since then double down on statistic and will be going into Biostatistic field instead of data science. It feels like there are a lot of impostors especially in start ups and government organizations in data science. I have no clue why but there is just this culture in tech industry that have made me left it for better field. I've intern in the biostat field it is much better. CNN and other have listed with high quality of life.
I agree. I was in a very prestige organization and they didn't know what a statistician really do and just hired CS machine learning PHDs. Even those people don't even know what statistician does. One person gave me ISLR when I ask for advice to get hire at this prestige place (I did an equivalent of this over several graduate courses in statistic program).
Another person proudly told me that in his project, he was using GLM stating he knows GLM. I asked what was the link function and that person stated he didn't know and it's somewhere in the code...
I've since then double down on statistic and will be going into Biostatistic field instead of data science. It feels like there are a lot of impostors especially in start ups and government organizations in data science. I have no clue why but there is just this culture in tech industry that have made me left it for better field. I've intern in the biostat field it is much better. CNN and other have listed with high quality of life.