3 Painful Mistakes I Made as a Junior Data Scientist
Learn from them to fast-track your career today
Becoming a data scientist isn’t just about crunching numbers — it’s about navigating a minefield of potential missteps.
On my journey, I made some blunders that were not only painful but also incredibly enlightening. Here are the top three mistakes I made, so you don’t have to learn the hard way.
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I’m Mandy Liu, an ex-Meta data scientist :)
I studied Economics, started my career in Consulting, and transitioned into the fascinating world of Data Science and solopreneurship.
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1. Concealing weaknesses
I used to believe I had to excel at everything to be the perfect data scientist — the one who knew every detail about A/B testing and the latest ML models.