Rage Quitting Cancer Research

Why I went from Neuroscientist to Data Scientist

Kate Marie Lewis
Towards Data Science
12 min readFeb 3, 2020

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A photo of me from a weird promotional photoshoot for the lab. *Spoiler alert* there was nothing in the tube!

In my previous story I described how I transitioned from research scientist to data scientist, in this article I would like to elaborate on why. I had a promising career in brain tumour research along with eight years of study under my belt, so why would I want to throw that all away?

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