{"id":7401,"date":"2016-03-02T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=7401"},"modified":"2016-03-02T10:27:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T15:27:26","slug":"mid-life-journey-to-data-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/mid-life-journey-to-data-science\/7401\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Life Journey to Data Science"},"content":{"rendered":"Data Science has been hailed as the sexiest job of the 21st century. This news has understandably had an influence over today\u2019s college undergraduates and even high school students. But can a person who is mid-career &#8212; who has invested proverbial blood along with real sweat and tears into a different path &#8212; act on this news? Is it possible to transition into Data Science later in life? \u201cIt depends.\u201d From a tactical standpoint, the areas of one\u2019s expertise, in schooling and career, dictate the level of effort needed to make the transition. Your years of work experience <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/mid-life-journey-to-data-science\/7401\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data Science has been hailed as the sexiest job of the 21st century. This news has understandably had an influence over today\u2019s college undergraduates and even high school students. But can a person who is mid-career &#8212; who has invested proverbial blood along with real sweat and tears into a different path &#8212; act on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,166,47,62],"class_list":["post-7401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leading-stories","tag-analytics","tag-data-science","tag-data-scientist","tag-elder-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7403,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions\/7403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}