On: Embrace the Grind

[disgruntledphd2]

Those students are in the wrong career. You can't make good things from data without (metaphorically) getting your hands dirty.

[dan-robertson → disgruntledphd2]

Or maybe they have just learned something—these are students, not seasoned professionals.

[disgruntledphd2 → dan-robertson]

Yeah definitely. To be fair, I was kinda harsh, but it's incredibly frustrating to see people ignore core parts of the DS workflow because it doesn't map neatly to cool technologies. Especially when that part is the base for pretty much everything you'll do with data.