Peeter Piksarv has a PhD in Physics from 2013 and worked as a postdoc from 2014 to 2016 before becoming a data scientist. He discusses how academics skills like taking lots of lectures to build knowledge, mastering the scientific method, conducting research, problem solving, and writing and presenting are useful for becoming a scientist. Piksarv's own work has involved bots, text classification, and a variety of projects that require an aptitude for learning, confidence facing unknown problems, and making evidence-based decisions.

1. Academic Skills in the Tech Industry?
Peeter Piksarv
peeter@mooncascade.ai 14 Jan 2018, TartuMobileMonday Estonia

2. 2013 PhD in Physics
2014-2016 Postdoc
2016- Data Scientist

5. TÜ füüsikud püüavad salapärast
musta auku esile kutsuda
Õhtuleht 02.12.2009
Valgusimpulsside uurija valgustab teadust
Tartu Postimees 03.10.2013

8. How does one become a scientist?

9. by Matt Might

10. Building up Specific Knowledege
— Lots and Lots of Lectures

11. Master Scientific Method
Know Something about

12. Literature Research, Technical Reading

13. Problem Solving

14. Writing and Presenting

16. What has the actual work been about?

17. Bots

18. More Bos and Text Classification

19. Wide Variety of Projects

20. An aptitude for learning
Confidence to face the unknown
Evidence based decision-making

21. Thank you!