Anyone here (((data science)))? Should I get a master’s degree for it?

I do GIS data science for a military contractor (Cubic GD) and its a based field but I shifted into this position without a meme degree. I don't think anyone here has a relevant degree. All I had to do was prove proficiency in database structures, including noSQL faggotry, and how to write small programs in, get this... Java.

I proved that by actually doing it, although sloppily, in my previous position as a GayOps technician.

Only if its a target school for FANG.

If you are a woman and/or coloured person in CANZUK, Europe or the USA, it's an excellent job. You can get a government position and become their source of truth and virtue so long as you are good at stats and working with BI solutions. It's badly oversaturated for white males though. You'd need a relevant secondary discipline to make that work. Probably economics.

no

just get really good at fixing bugs in popular frameworks because thats what employers want

I made 130 a year from my last job with a non cs degree because i know system architecture

also drink oatly

>makes the same as a web dev tranny
>requires 500% more education
sounds like a bad deal. i'd rather learn web dev and eventually specialize in the $$$ shit like back end optimization or even """dev ops""" or """site reliability.""""

data is a human abstraction, no one is made of it, it doesn't exist physically, sperg cringe shit kys back to r9k

They take a data science bootcamp, their tools and libraries are handed. Do you really think that the average data science job requires you to apply calculus? lmfao

do data science bootcampers get real data science jobs, or are they just getting bullshit watered down business analyst or data analyst jobs? just thinking about it conceptually, there's no fucking way someone with a 10-12 week course in statistics can measure up to someone who did an undergrad in math/stats plus an advanced degree.

you stupid neets say every career is "over saturated". just shut up

What happens when a bunch of NEET nodes make this field near obsolete in 10 years?

Yes. No.

because white males are the only ones that are capable of doing the job

they get data analyst jobs and work their way up from there. data analyst can still make like 80k a year though, sure beats starbooks

Im a hardware engineer and own 2 houses in different countries. Try again

everything is data/information. take some shrooms and read gregory chaitin

to be a competitive candidate in the next few years, you have to be someone who is exceptional in at least one of math/stats/compsci and decent to good in the others. it's not something you can learn in a bootcamp. so, it is oversaturated, but the top data scientists will still have lucrative offers for the foreseeable future.

Handling data is ez, whatever you use, R, Python, Matlab

The hard part is going the extra length to master some redux/react tableau or d3.js.

Pick your poison and never stop learning.

If you're going to get a masters get it in computer science, math, or statistics. Don't get a masters in data science, that's a meme degree. Most "data scientists" are useless and do nothing but use packaged logistic regression models so unless you're a retard you can easily outperform your coworkers

So yeah, you probably don't need a degree for this. At least not beside a simple bachelor that has math.

data scientist here. its comfy if you like that sort of thing.

I'll second this and add that you could also get a domain specific masters and use data science for your thesis, this is a good way of landing your first job as domain knowledge goes a long way

Any Data Scientists here want to tell me what I need to learn to bridge a degree in pure maths (topology, algebra, analysis, made up bullshit) into data science? Statistics, Probability, naturally, but those are broad categories, and also probably not entirely sufficient