What helped me get a data science job that fits my ambitions – part 1: resources

What helped me get a data science job that fits my ambitions – part 1: resources

Around ambitions, challenges, learning
Almost 2 years ago, I took the decision to quit my job as a software engineer and to start looking for a job in the machine learning field. Right away after quitting my job, I wrote an article in my blog Up to my new Tech challenges and from there the journey started. In this article, I'm happy to share how I landed the job I dreamt of. Yeah, I got it! I've been working as a Data Scientist for Remerge, in Berlin,  for one year. Choose the right courses First off, it's important to assimilate core concepts and techniques in machine learning / Data Science, so I started on some main courses online: Machine Learning Specialization, university of Washington, Coursera: This specialization, taught by two Amazon Professors, is a good…
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Applied text classification on Email Spam Filtering [part 1]

Applied text classification on Email Spam Filtering [part 1]

My activities, projects, Technology
Since last few months, I've started working on online Machine Learning Specialization provided by the University of Washington. The first course was about ML foundations, the second about Linear Regression, and the third course on which  I'm currently on track is about Classification. I liked the courses almost in every aspect as they teach ML algorithms implementation from Scratch. That was my goal when I decided to discover the field in more depth. But, honestly, I was feeling that there is a gap somehow because many questions were left without answers along the way. Then, after reading about how to start with Machine Learning, I found that most articles emphasized the importance of combining courses with practical projects in order to apply what's learned and better assimilate it.. and it's so true!…
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Up to my new tech challenges!

Up to my new tech challenges!

challenges, Technology
You have certainly heard about that unique thing, which changes your life and makes it magic, beautiful. It can be a person, a situation, a hardship, a moment of discovery.. so called "The Spark"! It all started three or four years ago when I discovered those intelligent features in my Smartphone  "Samsung Galaxy S3": social tag,  smart stay, smart alert and S voice. Many questions were coming to my mind about those features, I was so curious about what's behind their functionalities and how humans succeeded in developing such intelligent technologies! At that time, I was studying computer science engineering and wondering which option modules to take for the last semesters. So, I decided to study "decision making and artificial intelligent (AI) systems" as an option for my last two…
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