Hello /r/ML,
This is my first post here and my first post on reddit in general (I've been lurking for quite some time now, this place is awesome!). I'm finishing my PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at a top-tier school this summer and am wondering how I can land a job in Data Science/ML without the requisite purely quantitative PhD (Math, CS, Stats, etc.). I'm looking in the NYC area and dont want to work anywhere else because girlfriend. I do/have done a lot of ML/Data Mining related work in grad school and am doing quite a bit for my dissertation, but am by no means a "guru" with all of the requisite Stats wizardry and erudition that comes with knowing all of the latest ML algorithms. How should I proceed? Do I have a chance of getting a job or do I really need to have even more training before I can even hope to get past a preliminary interview? Thanks for all your help in advance, this sub is really cool.
Edit: Ok, so not technically my first reddit post, but my first substantive one, so there.
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