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I think it would have been more interesting to constrain the query to must have PHD. There's probably a lot of grunt work that needs to be done in other languages that aren't really specific to machine learning. Eg, python is fantastic for data wrangling, but PHDs with R probably earn 2x what masters/bsc data wranglers do. But you probably need like 4x of the latter in terms of staff.

For the person who downvoted me, I wasn't saying R is better than Python. I was just saying that if you have just R, you're probably not doing data wrangling..

What this post is completely failing to capture is the exceedingly high value work in machine learning versus the typical work any skilled undergrad can do.

parent blazespin 10 years ago

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