Hey guys I am a Statistics undergrad. What should I do with my career? For more context I have some skill in python3 and R(the programming language). It's been awhile since I've done anything with Java or C, but I could probably relearn it fairly easily.
I think I should probably go to a hackathon or a datathon(statistics version of a hackathon), but I have no idea what I should pursue for these competitions.
Other ideas are welcome as well. Upwards of 50 mana per suggestion. Disclaimer, I reserve all rights to pay out bounties according to my subjective opinion, that is to say, how useful I think it is.
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Do you have any chance of producing academic work good enough to get at least into a workshop at a major machine learning conference like ICLM, ICLR, or NIPS? Or into something machine-learning adjacent such as ACM FAccT (conference on fairness, accountability, transparency etc in ML)? Employers are actively looking to hire people at these conferences and having a good poster can make you stand out. Statistics overlaps a lot with ML and workshops offer lots of niche areas where you may try to become the big fish in the small pond.
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