Just Started Codecademy’s Data Science Course – It’s No Joke!

[oncall-engineer]

If your math no good.... Please don't study computing....

A Math during secondary school B3. Ke yi Ma?

 

[oncall-engineer]

AAA so must be hard? Smlj, accounting used to be hard to get in also sia but now nobody want so dropped too

TS, most important part is to have strong portfolio, you complete all this must show how applicable it is to your future coy. Ppl and coy don't really care if it's difficult but they care about money, as how you can apply this knowledge to help make money. Show cert now not satki liao, must show portfolio as how you apply those skillset.

Thanks, I’ll do my best.

 

[parchiao]

A Math during secondary school B3. Ke yi Ma?

Ideally have H2 Maths minimum to start with

Or have done undergraduate Linear Algebra and Probability.

 

[ahboy82]

Some concept became clearer when undergoing certain lessons in the course. I know this may be noob stuff for the professional statisticians, but its rather eye opening for me.

Like for example, why using mean to measure Singaporean's salary may not be meaningful ~ because it can be skewed. So instead of using mean, other alternative measurements like median and interquartile range (IQR) make more sense. So now, people can brag about belonging to the top quadrant.

Wa lao this is nt statistician stuff any normal uni grad will learn this leh

 

[CCCustom]

I recently subscribed to Codecademy for a year and jumped straight into their Machine Learning/AI Engineering Foundations course. I figured it would be a good way to get hands-on with data science fundamentals and maybe even pivot into the field down the road.

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Anyone else here tried this course or other platforms? Curious to know how others managed the difficulty and stayed motivated.

If you want to take the course purely to learn, Codecademy is 1 of the worst ways to go. There will be times when you are stuck, and if you go the “Get Unstuck” route, there is a high possibility you will often end up saying to yourself … “Aiyah, that’s all they are asking?” because you could have done it but the way it is worded you think the correct answer should be more complicated than it actually is.

The only reason to use Codecademy is for employers who still have boomer mindset and think Codecademy is the “measuring stick” … and surprise surprise … Accenture is 1 such boomer mindset company - a friend applied for a Junior Java Developer post and they made completing the Java courses on Codecademy a requirement for him to qualify for 2nd interview.

Codecademy is what EDMWers refer to as “toilet paper”

 

[Heriophant]

@oncall-engineer

May I know whats yr rationale for studying DS now in SG?

Its incredibly SATURATED. Jobs are getting outsourced to Manila/Mumbai or whereever

 

[haxyer]

I went for specialist diploma in big data at local poly 6 years ago and they only manage to teach the basic like data cleaning, spark, Hadoop and basic data science concepts in 1 year. Although it’s only data engineering, With guidance it’s already not easy because you need to think of all the sanity checks of data and concepts of tokenization plus the technical part of implementation.

I work in tech engineering so I still can manage to finish the course but it’s still only the basic. I do see some of my classmates struggling.

 

[MichealScott]

If you want to take the course purely to learn, Codecademy is 1 of the worst ways to go. There will be times when you are stuck, and if you go the “Get Unstuck” route, there is a high possibility you will often end up saying to yourself … “Aiyah, that’s all they are asking?” because you could have done it but the way it is worded you think the correct answer should be more complicated than it actually is.

The only reason to use Codecademy is for employers who still have boomer mindset and think Codecademy is the “measuring stick” … and surprise surprise … Accenture is 1 such boomer mindset company - a friend applied for a Junior Java Developer post and they made completing the Java courses on Codecademy a requirement for him to qualify for 2nd interview.

Codecademy is what EDMWers refer to as “toilet paper”

then what would you recommend? for someone who want to get into this field?

 

[oncall-engineer]

@oncall-engineer

May I know whats yr rationale for studying DS now in SG?

Its incredibly SATURATED. Jobs are getting outsourced to Manila/Mumbai or whereever

I was trying to learn about AI and consulted ChatGPT and it recommended me this foundation course.

 

[oncall-engineer]

Wa lao this is nt statistician stuff any normal uni grad will learn this leh

Sorry im ignorant.

 

[Heriophant]

I was trying to learn about AI and consulted ChatGPT and it recommended me this foundation course.

I see. I am from IT industry.. I think anyone studying IT or DS now shd srs reconsider lol..It looks bleak in SG..

 

[oncall-engineer]

I see. I am from IT industry.. I think anyone studying IT or DS now shd srs reconsider lol..It looks bleak in SG..

Oh I didn’t know that. What about software engineering in general? Also bleak? Temporarily bleak or looking bleak in the mid term?

 

[Epee]

I tried Andrew Ng’s ML stuff on Coursera a couple of years back. Gave up half way because the maths is too intense. I may try TS’s course. 100USD a year is quite affordable.

 

[Heriophant]

Oh I didn’t know that. What about software engineering in general? Also bleak? Temporarily bleak or looking bleak in the mid term?

I work in a local bank. All our development and testing is done in Manila/Mumbai...Software eng is good if you are from there? Luls

 

[zzangiefzz]

after completing the course will get hired by meta for half a mil per year?

meta offering 100mil for openai swe

 

[parchiao]

I work in a local bank. All our development and testing is done in Manila/Mumbai...Software eng is good if you are from there? Luls

Even if development is done elsewhere, if as a manager of a function on the receiving end, cannot ascertain if the developer is doing the right thing, it is very troublesome.

This way why I learnt programming and managing data. Caught the developers doing FO many times until they scared of me.

Will always have some use.

 

[oncall-engineer]

I work in a local bank. All our development and testing is done in Manila/Mumbai...Software eng is good if you are from there? Luls

Development done offshore. No way... how are they integrating with VKey then?

 

[oncall-engineer]

Wa lao this is nt statistician stuff any normal uni grad will learn this leh

Great explanation here.

 

[ahboy82]

I work in a local bank. All our development and testing is done in Manila/Mumbai...Software eng is good if you are from there? Luls

Software engineer is still good if u r extremely zai and is faang calibre. If avg joe like moi then yea agree is bleak

 

[focus1974]

I recently subscribed to Codecademy for a year and jumped straight into their Machine Learning/AI Engineering Foundations course. I figured it would be a good way to get hands-on with data science fundamentals and maybe even pivot into the field down the road.

To my surprise, it’s really not easy at all. Introduction abit shag already — the learning curve is steep. It made me realise how rigorous the subject really is, and why local universities like NUS require AAA to get into their data science programmes. And I'm not even close to the Python programming, linear algebra, probability theory and machine learning concepts.

Anyone else here tried this course or other platforms? Curious to know how others managed the difficulty and stayed motivated.

can AI help?