What they do not tell you about machine learning

By Mike West, SQL Server Evangelist.

The truth.

Here's some real-world insight.

1. Most of my work is data driven. About 90% of it.
2. Modeling is a small part of my job.
3. I don't use math at all during my day to day work.
4. There are no entry level machine learning engineering jobs.
5. Most applied modeling isn’t deep learning.
6. Real-world models aren’t built on laptops.
7. Unless you are a programmer working with data or a skilled data professional you're looking at 5–8 years before you’re in a real-world job.
8. There are no real-world machine learning engineers that attended boot camps and received jobs.
9. The top skill for a machine learning engineer is SQL.
10. Most will never make it past the phone screen.

Good luck to you.

Set some realistic expectations.

Become a voracious learning of all things machine learning.

If you don’t have one, then get a job working with SQL and data. No data skills, no job.

Read this.

Original. Reposted with permission.

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