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What Problem Are You Trying to Solve, Anyway? - Alfred Lee

What Problem Are You Trying to Solve, Anyway? - Alfred Lee

If you're changing careers into programming, or especially data science, don't be intimidated by the stars and the experts. You may know more than you think you know.

PyGotham 2014

August 17, 2014
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  1. What Problem Are You Trying to Solve, Anyway? Alfred Lee,

    PhD! Data Scientist, Paperless Post! Instructor, General Assembly! PyGotham 2014
  2. Who am I? SOURCE: (NASA photo / Jim Ross) http://www.nasa.gov/

    mission_pages/SOFIA/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html
  3. Closing Note Don’t wantonly break things, try not to fail.

    Not thinking, not creating, not doing is failing. You don’t have to be perfect to be useful.
  4. Thank you Alfred Lee, PhD Data Scientist, Paperless Post Instructor,

    General Assembly @alphrabet https://www.paperlesspost.com/jobs