Want a career in machine learning? Here's what you need to study

With the CAO change-of-mind facility, there's still time to switch degree for a career in machine learning. Machine learning is similar to data analysis, but they're not quite the same thing. While a data analyst has to produce insights and be able to tell a story with the data they have, a machine learning engineer's output is largely software-based, which means their data has to be understood by machines instead of people. For this reason, software engineering knowledge is critical to a machine learning engineer. There are specific software engineering courses in various institutions including: University College Dublin (UCD), Maynooth University, NUI Galway, Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) and Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT).