When you change into an information scientist, it’s an important feeling knowing that your days, weeks, and even months of studying and learning have finally paid off.
Nevertheless, that is just the beginning.
Chances are high you don’t need to be any data scientist, but probably an important one. So, in this text I would like to go over several things you need to do to push yourself into the highest 1% of knowledge scientists from my personal experiences and from what I actually have observed from these top echelon of practitioners.
An concept that the book Atomic Habits (by James Clear) made popular is that improving 1% day by day greatly compounds over time.
- 1% improvement day by day is 1.01³⁶⁵ ~ 38
- 1% decline day by day is 0.99⁹³⁶⁵ ~ 0.026
By making small positive decisions every day as an information scientist, your progress will compound, pushing you into that elite tier.
Okay sure, this sounds nice on paper, but what are you able to do to implement this in practice?
Well, the easiest way is to learn something recent every day. It doesn’t matter how small it’s, if you happen to are picking up knowledge each day, useless to say, this can profit you in the long run.
I can offer you some examples to try:
- As a substitute of Pandas, use a package like Polars or Spark to learn a recent data manipulation framework.
- Write aliases for any terminal or command line prompts you often use.
- When doing a code review, ask why someone has done something a certain way.
- Pair with a software engineer to learn some productivity suggestions on your IDE.
strategy to keep yourself accountable is to put in writing down something recent you learned at…