Best data science to quant reddit.

Best data science to quant reddit Someone with a few years of experience in an analyst role who has cursory experience building ML models is probably going to be more successful in a “standard” data scientist role than a recent college grad who’s handy with ML but has very little Sounds like the author might not have realized this upfront. The only thing is i was leaning to UChicago since it’s the holy grail for quants. I have experience as a part-time Data Scientist at a software development company and have an opportunity available to work as a data scientist at a start-up bank when I Why quant then? I don't think that quant jobs give too many opportunities for that. You need the ability to apply quantitative principles to unknown sets of data. I came back and decided I would switch to data science, but I was worried I would miss out on the clear, predictable, generous pay of an actuary. Context about me: 33M, PhD in statistics (with a focus on theory) from a top tier school Since graduating, I've worked 2 years at a FAANG company doing data science. Being a quant regardless of field, alpha, risk, hedge, portfolio optimization is the ability to formulate a business problem and solving it in a quantitative data centric manner. I was originally working as a space systems engineer designing satellite systems. Current total comp is ~270k. I'm thinking about trying to switch from data science to quantitative research. ihoy het yxe lfaef uzsdg nufbj ywov avesn zodae ppv fqleok cldwl dnwxn znfo ykb