- Published on August 1, 2020
- In AI Features
An Economist’s Guide To Becoming A Chief Data Scientist: Interview With Sandip Bhattacharjee
- By Ram Sagar
“Very early into my career, I had realised that the majority of decisions in our lives are very similar to an optimisation exercise.”
For this week’s ML practitioner’s series, Analytics India Magazine got in touch with Sandip Bhattacharjee, Chief Data Scientist at Tabsquare.ai. Sandip is also a 4x Kaggle expert. In this interview, he shares his experience from his data analytics journey that spans over a decade.
AIM: Can you talk about your education and your introduction to the world of data science?
Sandip: As a student, I was always fascinated by the utility of statistics and econometrics to explain different aspects of consumer behaviour. And, as far as my academics are concerned, I am an Economist with a Masters in Economics from JNU with special papers in Stati
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Ram Sagar
I have a master's degree in Robotics and I write about machine learning advancements.
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