Timeline for Is Cross Validated an appropriate place to ask advice on career development questions in statistics?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:44 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 9, 2015 at 13:38 | comment | added | Scortchi Mod | @AndreSilva: I do tend to agree with you. "How can I transfer into the field of statistics from being an economist at xyz?" is a non-starter; "What concepts & methods from an education in (general) applied statistics would someone with a specialization in econometrics be unfamiliar with?" looks more promising. I'll try to work these points up into an answer that people can vote up or down when I find time. | |
| Dec 9, 2015 at 13:26 | comment | added | Andre Silva | Perhaps we could benefit having an additional answer emphasizing such points. I still read words like 'advice', 'general', 'career-development' and I imagine most type of questions in this category being opinion-based. (@Scortchi) | |
| Dec 9, 2015 at 12:55 | comment | added | Scortchi Mod |
Note also that a high proportion of the careers questions have been made community wiki, & that the tag wiki excerpt says "When asking a question with this tag, please make sure that it is of general interest, rather than seeking advice about your particular job situation". I'm not sure there's a consensus that careers questions are off-topic per se, but they're likely to be better received when inviting fairly objective answers focusing on required statistical knowledge & experience for roles in general rather than peripheral or localized matters.
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| Dec 8, 2015 at 23:11 | history | edited | gung - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 8, 2015 at 22:25 | comment | added | Andre Silva | @Thomas, true. Have you already looked at the DataScience Stack Exchange? Perhaps, there would be an alternative. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 22:16 | comment | added | tomka | I agree CV may be a place primarily for statistics and topics that can be answered by facts. However, stackexchange in general invites opinion based boards, such as academia.stackexchange.com which in my view is primarily a opinion based discussion board. So maybe a data science career board may be helpful. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 22:11 | comment | added | Andre Silva | Perhaps I am wrong about what opinion-based is. About questions tagged careers, some are closed with precisely this reason. (@amoeba). | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 20:28 | comment | added | amoeba | I am not sure the answer really is "no", given that we have careers tag with 30+ questions. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 19:14 | history | answered | Andre Silva | CC BY-SA 3.0 |