Also, store back-up copies of data; careers go up in flames or float down rivers more often than you think.
Additional critical skills are required for big data careers in industry, such as text mining, ontology, data integration, machine learning, and information architecture.
As a result, "there are many opportunities for scientists to pursue a bioinformatics/big data career in the biotech/big pharma industry at the moment," notes Jared Kaleck, senior director of computational chemistry/biology and formulation development at executive search firm Klein Hersh International.
Surveys gathered data on career choice, career development, and demographics.
We focused on the critical early career stages, examining data on career plans, research training, major professional activity, faculty positions, and first NIH research grants (16).
Not surprisingly, data science careers are particularly prominent in the high tech space.
He worked for Intel, Google, Foursquare, and JPMorgan Chase before launching the Data Incubator, which trains STEM Ph.D.'s for data science careers.
For software engineering and data science careers, it is vital to understand databases and algorithms and how to apply them to solve real-world problems, says Michael Li, whose Ph.D. is in mathematics.
Tilghman, Rockey, and the others in the working group laid out several recommendations aimed at shortening and diversifying doctoral programs and postdoc positions, increasing the proportion of trainees supported by training grants and fellowships instead of research grants, collecting more data on career outcomes, improving postdoc salaries, and promoting the staff scientist career path.
In addition to data on career choice and certainty of choice, we present data on factors affecting career choices for ophthalmology.
A particular strength of this study is that it provides rich qualitative data on career decisions in a multi-speciality postgraduate training program, as well as actual career outcomes over a 12-year period.
