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Exploring a Career in Data Science: Opportunities and Challenges

16/07/2024

Data science has emerged as one of the most sought-after career paths in the digital age. As businesses increasingly rely on data-driven decisions , the demand for skilled data scientists continues to grow. For professionals and aspiring data experts, understanding the landscape of a career in data science is crucial. In this article, we will explore the opportunities, challenges, and essential skills needed for a successful career in this...

Accessing the News API in Python

12/05/2022

Accessing and analyzing media content is a fascinating part of data analytics. It allows to follow trends of public interest over time or to see how stories evolve (e.g. newslens ). While many media outlets offer APIs, it is cumbersome to collect them individually. News API closes that gap and allows to search and retrieve live articles from all over the web. In this tutorial we will retrieve the...

How to hire a good data scientist?

17/11/2020

Unless you've been living under a rock, you may be familiar with the data science field making waves in different industries. Maybe you saw it while scrolling aimlessly through Facebook, or you've actively trying to look for a job in the field. Either way, data science is an emerging field, making it one of the most sought after jobs in our century, and everyone knows about it. But with jobs comes a hiring process. With hiring comes...

Wie stellt man einen guten Data Scientist ein?

17/11/2020

Wenn Sie nicht unter einem Felsen gelebt haben, sind Sie vielleicht damit vertraut, dass Data Science in verschiedenen Branchen Wellen schlägt. Vielleicht haben Sie es gesehen, als Sie ziellos durch Facebook scrollten, oder Sie haben aktiv versucht, eine Vakanz in diesem Bereich zu füllen. Wie dem auch sei, Data Science ist ein aufstrebendes Gebiet, was es zu einem der begehrtesten Jobmärkte in unserem Jahrhundert macht. Aber mit...

Top 6 tips to land your first job in data science

10/07/2020

Because of the rapid development of the field and the promising opportunities in the future, many people are interested in entering the world of data science right now. if you have no experience in the field or you are transitioning from a different background, finding your first job in the field of data science can be a daunting task, especially as competition is increasing. This blog gives you six tips to increase your chances of landing...

Using Azure Functions with Python

08/05/2020

Overview Lately, I worked a lot with the Azure Cloud. Overall I have to say Azure offers a lot but is still not on the same level as its hardest competitors (AWS, Google). One thing that caught my eye is the compatibility of certain programming languages. Azure supports a few different languages (C#, JavaScript, Java, Python, etc.) but the supported features for these languages differ a lot. I think Azure Cloud is really great for...

Support Vector Machines (SVM) in Python

22/04/2020

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a widely used supervised learning algorithm for classification and regression tasks. It is mostly exploited for classification problems. The points of different classes are separated by a hyperplane, and this hyperplane must be chosen in such a way that the distances from it to the nearest data points on each side should be maximal. Support Vector Machine has some advantages. The first one is that SVM works...

9 Tipps zur Verbesserung Ihres Data Science Lebenslaufs

11/04/2020

Der erste Schritt, um eine Stelle als Data Scientist zu bekommen, ist derselbe wie in jedem anderen Beruf: Erstellen Sie einen überzeugenden Lebenslauf! Obwohl es im Bereich der Data Science mehr offene Stellen gibt als je zuvor , ist es wichtig, einen aussagekräftigen und passenden Lebenslauf zu haben, um den gewünschten Job zu bekommen. Dieser Blog gibt Ihnen neun Tipps, um Ihre Chancen zu verbessern, die von Ihnen gewünschte Stelle im...

9 tips to improve your data science resume

11/04/2020

The first step to land a job as a data scientist is the same as in any other profession: create a compelling CV! Although there are more open positions in the field of data science than ever before it is important to have a strong and suitable CV in order to land the job you want. This post gives you nine tips in order to improve your chances to find the data science job you want. 1. Include achievements, not just jobs “I increased...

COVID-19 Dataset Challenge

30/03/2020

Use your extra time at home (and your data skills) for a good cause: Check out the Kaggle COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the White House and a coalition of leading research groups have prepared the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). This dataset is a resource of over 29,000 scholarly articles, including over 13,000 with full text, about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and related...

Data Science & Analytics Job Market in Switzerland in 2019

26/11/2019

Today, data science specialists are among the most sought-after in the labor market. Being able to find significant insights in a huge amount of information, they help companies and organizations to optimize the structure's work. The field of data science is rapidly developing and the demand for talent is changing. We use job offerings to analyze the current demand for talent. After performing a first analysis in 2017 , this article...

Building a simple sentiment classifier in R using Trump's tweets

12/08/2019

For the past few years, tasks involving text and speech processing have become really hot-trendy. Among the various researches belonging to the fields of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, sentiment analysis ranks really high. Sentiment analysis allows identifying and getting subjective information from the source data using data analysis and visualization, ML models for classification, text mining and analysis. This helps to...

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