How to switch a career from Software Engineer to Machine Learning?

Question

Can anyone tell me how to switch career from Software Engineer to Machine Learning?

Answer 1

To switch career from Software Engineer to Machine Learning, you can follow these steps:

Step 1: Understand the basics

Step 2: Learn some Statistics

Suggested topics:

• Data structures, variables, and summaries
• Sampling
• The basic principles of probability
• Distributions of random variables
• Inference for numerical and categorical data
• Linear, multiple and logistic regression

 

Step 3: Learn Python or R programming for data analysis

Suggested topics:

• Supported data structures
• Read, import or export data
• Data quality analysis
• Data cleaning and preparation
• Data manipulation – e.g. sorting, filtering, aggregating and other functions
• Data visualization

 

Step 4: Complete an Exploratory Data Analysis Project

Topics to cover:

• Single variable explorations
• Pair-wise and multi-variable explorations
• Visualization, dashboard, and storytelling in Tableau

 

Step 5: Create unsupervised learning models

Topics to cover:

• K-means clustering
• Association rules

 

If you wish to jump-start your career in Machine Learning, then enroll in this Machine Learning Certification by Intellipaat.

 

 You can watch this video on Machine Learning career: