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What can a PhD add to your data science career?

(And what does it cost you.)

There are many career paths towards data science. Even though the field was mostly populated by people with academic backgrounds at the beginning, this is definitely not the only valid entry point. The long-standing debate about whether or not should you have a PhD to be a data scientist has been settled: you don’t. However, a PhD can…