Theme 6 Shared Resources

I passed all my Data Science interviews in 2018 Because hiring a data scientistโ€ฆ

๐—œ๐—ป ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฒโ€“๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿต ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ: โ†ณ Do you know R/basic Python? โ†ณ Whatโ€™s the difference between Random Forest & Decision Trees? โ†ณ Can you perform logistic regression by hand? โ†ณ Show some statistical analysis in Python

Fast forward to 2025 - welcome to the AI era. And the interview bar has leveled up.

๐Ÿ”น ๐—œ๐—ป ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ - ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ธ: โ†ณ Have you worked with FastAPI or deployed async services? โ†ณ Can you build and monitor a RAG system end-to-end? โ†ณ Do you know Langfuse, RAGAS, or LlamaIndex? โ†ณ Sketch a pipeline for fine-tuning your model. โ†ณ What are your caching & cost strategies for LLM workloads?

Back in 2016-2019, very few truly knew โ€œdata science.โ€ Even companies hiring didnโ€™t always know what they needed. But over the years, the maturity of the field has changed drastically. Thatโ€™s why every job today, regardless of the title is different.

Pure data science jobs still exists but its becoming less as I see around. Itโ€™s got more versatile now.

I also went through this transition from Pure Data Science to MLOps to AI Agent+RAG over the past years. And these resources genuinely helped me:

  1. Data Science Foundations โ†’ ISLR [Book] - https://lnkd.in/djGPVVwJ โ†’ Practical Statistics for Data Science [Book] - https://lnkd.in/dBWucpRX โ†’ Hands-On ML with TensorFlow & Keras [Book] - https://lnkd.in/dWrf5pbS

  2. MLOps & End-to-End Systems โ†’ Designing Machine Learning Systems [Book] - https://lnkd.in/dY8NJMRk โ†’ AWS Cloud Practitioner [Course] - https://lnkd.in/dA2wuP44 โ†’ AWS ML Specialty [Course] - https://lnkd.in/dzjVT3ZX

  3. LLMs + AI Agents + RAG โ†’ Hands-On LLMs [Book] - https://lnkd.in/dVmn83XB โ†’ Awesome GenAI Projects [Repo] - https://lnkd.in/dtFTZsCs โ†’ RAG Techniques [Repo] - https://lnkd.in/dD4S8Cq2 โ†’ GenAI Agents [Repo] - https://lnkd.in/dnhwk75V

  4. AI Engineering โ†’ AI Engineering [Book] - https://lnkd.in/dqwDjHVa โ†’ Some software engineering resources - https://lnkd.in/dyHRVBaP

Did you go through such transition? Comment below ๐Ÿ‘‡

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