I did my undergrad and Msc in data science, now going to the industry I feel I might lose touch with some topics and techniques. I was thinking about starting a series on medium where I deep dive into different topics in the field. It would get me to study, be updated and get more visibility, what do you think? Will this be good for me? Is this something worth pursuing?
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It will likely be a very good way to hone your writing skills and a good way to ‘force’ yourself to study new areas.
In terms of visibility, if you create good content, then it can’t hurt, right? If you feel the stuff is good quality, then it could be good to include in CVs.
The issue with medium is the vast ocean of repetitive, derivative garbage. It feels like a lot of people out there think all they have to do to be seen as an “influencer” is throw up some plagiarised guff about linear regression.
Just avoid being that, and I think it’ll be a positive.
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Haha no kidding, but it’s kind of entertaining how mixed of a bag can Medium be.
Sometimes you find an in-depth, comprehensive article from an expert that correctly explains and solves the problem you’re experiencing, and then on the other day you come across an “article” that feels like a ctrl+c/ctrl+v’d geeksforgeeks page.
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Sites like medium and towardsdatascience have a reputation for being poorly written, overly simplified, or just plain wrong.
A better play would be to build things to put on github.
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You can do both without almost any additional work
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If you wanted to create articles based on your data analysis/ML projects, where would you recommend posting them?
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GitHub pages. But also you could just like, not bother posting lol. I’ve hired plenty of people and I cared about reading their code more, did not care at all about blogs.