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This is sort of half career advice and half academic advice. So I picked one.
So due to some academic hoops I need to jump through it looks like I'll be pretty close to getting a graduate certificate in biostatistics. So, why not? it's a cool cap to my "pure math" masters, develops practical skills, and sounds cool.
I am neither set on nor opposed to a job/career in bio-statistics. My opinion is that learning bio-stats and some epidemiology is a very cool way start doing some applied stats and that those skills can be ported over to any other domain. I'm wondering what people's experiences are with this.
Additionally I am working on my own to learn some programming languages, machine learning, etc. My current job is great about letting me brush up on skills while/between applying them. i.e. if i can use python to do something more efficiently then I'm encouraged to go ahead and do it.
-Dave K
So due to some academic hoops I need to jump through it looks like I'll be pretty close to getting a graduate certificate in biostatistics. So, why not? it's a cool cap to my "pure math" masters, develops practical skills, and sounds cool.
I am neither set on nor opposed to a job/career in bio-statistics. My opinion is that learning bio-stats and some epidemiology is a very cool way start doing some applied stats and that those skills can be ported over to any other domain. I'm wondering what people's experiences are with this.
Additionally I am working on my own to learn some programming languages, machine learning, etc. My current job is great about letting me brush up on skills while/between applying them. i.e. if i can use python to do something more efficiently then I'm encouraged to go ahead and do it.
-Dave K