I found great value in sharing publicly. I had connected with amazing people all over the world, learning from them, and interestingly enough, some people want to learn from me as well.
Zoomcamp is where I got the most value in my career. Happy to be part of the journey!
About learning in public: Given you track this (for extra points) -- have you thought about doing some analyses, along gender, seniority and country of origin lines?
When I was a (STEM) researcher at a university, I certainly read and used the message boards and mailing lists, but didn't post much myself-- and noticed other women were the same. There was a collective hesitancy to expose oneself in public to appearing 'less' (experienced, knowledgeable, whatever), as there was already a lot of prejudice floating around.
I also do some of these courses and workshops where I think people expect me to already know it. Sharing my learning of something people expect me to already know seems counterproductive (thus the question about seniority).
But generally I agree -- you don't understand something until you can explain it well.
We don't have fields for gender or seniority in the course management platform, so it will be difficult to do this analysis. I can share the data though if somebody is interested in trying it.
I do have some anecdotal evidence - and from what I see, it's not really gender specific. Most people in general don't like the idea of sharing what they learn. That's why we encourage it in our courses and give virtual points for it.
Many don't like this approach and constantly ask us to implement a different version of the leaderboard where "learning in public" points aren't shown, or ask to give fewer points for it. But this is not going to happen =)
Thanks Alexey for the article. It gives an understanding for what I've missed through sharing my experience with MLZoomcamp.
Even I didn't subbmit my capstone projects, I'll take this knowledge further and will share the learning of the course from the beginning and will work on the intended projects that I wanted to wor on. This will give me an expouse to the recuirters to hire me.
Thank you for your work and the whole team behind DattaTalks.
Wow! Thank you so much for the shootout!
I found great value in sharing publicly. I had connected with amazing people all over the world, learning from them, and interestingly enough, some people want to learn from me as well.
Zoomcamp is where I got the most value in my career. Happy to be part of the journey!
About learning in public: Given you track this (for extra points) -- have you thought about doing some analyses, along gender, seniority and country of origin lines?
When I was a (STEM) researcher at a university, I certainly read and used the message boards and mailing lists, but didn't post much myself-- and noticed other women were the same. There was a collective hesitancy to expose oneself in public to appearing 'less' (experienced, knowledgeable, whatever), as there was already a lot of prejudice floating around.
I also do some of these courses and workshops where I think people expect me to already know it. Sharing my learning of something people expect me to already know seems counterproductive (thus the question about seniority).
But generally I agree -- you don't understand something until you can explain it well.
We don't have fields for gender or seniority in the course management platform, so it will be difficult to do this analysis. I can share the data though if somebody is interested in trying it.
I do have some anecdotal evidence - and from what I see, it's not really gender specific. Most people in general don't like the idea of sharing what they learn. That's why we encourage it in our courses and give virtual points for it.
Many don't like this approach and constantly ask us to implement a different version of the leaderboard where "learning in public" points aren't shown, or ask to give fewer points for it. But this is not going to happen =)
Thanks Alexey for the article. It gives an understanding for what I've missed through sharing my experience with MLZoomcamp.
Even I didn't subbmit my capstone projects, I'll take this knowledge further and will share the learning of the course from the beginning and will work on the intended projects that I wanted to wor on. This will give me an expouse to the recuirters to hire me.
Thank you for your work and the whole team behind DattaTalks.