求问：CPA转data science可行吗？工作前景怎么样？

JJXX

坐标南加州，会计master毕业工作快两年了，在CPA firm，CPA license马上下来了，但是真心不想做这一行了，加班非常多工资低，就算熬六七年变成manager也才十万左右。听很多人说了data science，在考虑要不要边工作边读一个online degree再转行。希望有经验的人给点建议，没有数学 编程背景 感觉转行并不容易。谢谢赐教！
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走在云尖

也想知道，网上查到一些回答：
Understand exactly what you mean by data science.

Data science is still a relatively broad field, because there isn't yet a well defined view of what it is. It is greatly in the eye of the beholder (i.e., employer) what a data scientist really is.

At a mature company which has been doing data science before data science was a thing, they are probably looking at someone with a PhD in statistics/computational math/computational physics/etc, and are likely less focused on your ability to develop reports/websites/etc.

At a more cutting edge, software/app/consulting-type company which is actually centered around data science, they are probably looking for someone who has the technical chops to make advancements in the actual data-science part of things, but probably less concerned about where you got that skill.

At a more traditional company which is trying to build a data science department (without necessarily knowing what that means), they are likely looking for someone who maybe isn't a data scientist at all, i.e., they may want someone with an understanding of medium-to-advanced statistics, good business acumen, and good-to-advanced data manipulation skills.

To be honest, coming from an accounting background, your best bet is the latter: a position in which you are using data to drive decision-making, trying to build advanced analytics capabilities, but where being a "jack of all trades" is more valuable than being a data science wizard.

JJXX

走在云尖 发表于 2018-7-14 21:49
也想知道，网上查到一些回答：
Understand exactly what you mean by data science.

谢谢你的回复 很有道理 我也不是想完全放弃accounting，希望可以结合起来。我最近在考虑要不要去读书 我们可以私聊？
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我在考虑数据分析
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