scott-davis-transcript-2016

[scdavis50]

My data science curriculum, studied and/or in progress. Great repo. Happy to contribute.

[clarecorthell]

Thanks for adding your curriculum! What's your study plan like? Transition, nights and weekends?

[scdavis50]

I left my previous job about a week ago for a number of reasons and have
a 6 month non-compete, so right now I'm doing about 6-8 hours a day.

Once the kids get out of school I'll probably cut back to about 4
hours/day but I'd like to be finished by July.

I'm also building some models that I'm targeting for completion in late
August before I get back to work in October.

Thanks for this resource -- I'm happy to contribute some modifications
but what a labor it must have been to assemble.

Thanks
Scott

On 04/17/2016 07:41 PM, Clare wrote:

Thanks for adding your curriculum! What's your study plan like?
Transition, nights and weekends?

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[clarecorthell]

I'm impressed by your ambition, I'd be curious if the whole list fits in that time span. What kind of role are you looking at after that?

[scdavis50]

I'd agree that it's going to be tight. I'm almost finished with the
data science coursera specialization - I have one class + the capstone
left. I used to a lot of heavy excel work and some programming in
access, so it's not totally new and I've spent the last year working on
my R skills so I feel like once I have that down the rest will go pretty
quickly.

I've been talking with one of my competitors about a position in real
estate consulting. I'm looking to leverage data science tools/methods,
etc in the real estate space. The industry's been very slow to embrace
technology and I believe that presents an opening. For example my
former company was a leading provider of data and the backend of their
web platform runs in access 2.0. I'm looking to build an optimization
model for maximizing NPV in real estate developments, using the urban
sim model to build forecast models for the major Texas metros and
automate several of the standard studies that we do to run them as
reports out of a python-gis standalone app.

What kind of work do you do with Luminant?

On 04/18/2016 01:13 PM, Clare wrote:

I'm impressed by your ambition, I'd be curious if the whole list fits
in that time span. What kind of role are you looking at after that?

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[clarecorthell]

Curious to hear any updates on your journey, @scdavis50!