Are these prolific and well paying or is Data Science just a meme? What should I major in and study on my own to get a Data Analytics job?
>>1595264
Statistics. Data science is just applied stats. If you want to make big money, study finance along with it.
>>1595268
what do I self study then? I've taken a few stats classes but they teach 0 programming, albeit a bit of R
>>1595271
get better at R, enter kaggle competitions, play around with tensorflow, start running your own experiments based on publicly available data
>>1595264
Data Science is a meme, but it pays insanely well
Get on the meme train while it's in the station senpai.
Git gud with python, sql, r and stats
>>1595264
A DBA is just an electronic janitor if Indians are developing the applications. Make sure you have options to work on side projects during work hours if you get a job like this.
>>1595347
Is it that boring? And what majors and skills would a DBA have?
>>1595264
there's a good data science thread on /sci/
>>>>>>/sci/8445960