6 Lessons Learned in 6 Months as a Data Scientist - KDnuggets

Since my title flipped from consultant to data scientist six months ago, I've experienced a higher level of job satisfaction than I would have thought possible. To celebrate my first half year in this engaging field, here are six lessons I've collected along the way. Probably you're aware that reviewing arXiv is a good idea. I've been pleasantly surprised, though, by the amount of actionable advice I come across on the platform. For example, I might not have access to 16 TPUs and $7k to train BERT from scratch, but the recommended hyperparameter settings from the Google Brain team are a great place to start fine-tuning (check Appendix A.3). Hopefully, your favorite new package will have an enlightening read on arXiv to add color to its documentation.