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Mar 2020
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351: Self-Starting In Data Science

Jon Krohn
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Stratos Hadjioannou is a freshly hired data scientist who is self-taught and made the jump to visit DSGO. He talks about his learnings, putting himself in a data science ecosystem, and how to tackle interviews with little experience. In this episode you will learn: Where did Stratos start? [6:16] How to keep the momentum for learning [12:20] Stratos’s g ... Show More
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