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Sara Nóbrega
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Back in 2022, I was a Data Scientist intern at a bustling startup in the heart of Berlin.
My days were filled with the challenge of developing and implementing Natural Language Processing (NLP) models using BERT and Computer Vision models with Faster-RCNN. My task was to increase the accuracy of the company’s existing models, and I was eager to experiment with these models.
During informal meetings discussing my growth as a Data Scientist, my supervisor started emphasizing something that, at the time, felt a bit perplexing.
He kept stressing the importance of focusing on the production side of model development, not just the experimentation side.
His words left me puzzled.
As far as I knew, the role of a data scientist was to understand business requirements, perform statistical analysis, and find the best model. What more was there?
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