Episode 53
How To Transition From Economics Academia To A Career In Data Science - w/ Bhoomika
In this episode, featured not-expert is Bhoomika Jaggi. Bhoomika is a data scientist who pivoted to a career in data science after a masters in economics and econometrics.
First moves to steal
- Transition From Economics Academia To A Career In Data Science - w/ Bhoomika
- How To Begin Learning Economics (Self Learning)
- Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhoomika-jaggi/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timestamps:00:00 Intro + Background01:51 Bhoomika's message to all econ students everywhere 04:02 Economics Is NOT JUST Finance 05:43 How To Begin Learning Economics (Self Learning) 08:03 Bhoomika's background - 3 degrees in economics 11:07 Out of context and suddenly super technical Master's degree 13:47 PhD in Economics: Structure and Challenges 16:35 Development Economics: Understanding Inequality 20:10 The shocking truth about research in PhD econ 21:36 What is a MS in Econometrics all about?
Fast scan timestamps
Transcript-backed moments
A few lines worth stealing before you hand over the full hour.
What exactly does a masters in econometrics entail? When we actually do econometrics, we combine real world data with a theory. Seen with econometrics many times we are trying to estimate
many times we are trying to estimate causal effect and not correlation. I'm Nam Pandandy and in this episode featured not expert is Bumika Jagi. Bumika is a data scientist and has two
Bumika is a data scientist and has two master's degrees in economics and applied econometrics and data science and analytics respectively. People who are studying economics should be more
are studying economics should be more aware. They should come out of their economics bubble. And the second thing is invest the time in learning a programming language. Is there any
programming language. Is there any mathematical proof for one of capitalism or socialism/communism to be better than the other? I wanted to understand the inequalities in the world and why they
Show notes
In this episode, featured not-expert is Bhoomika Jaggi. Bhoomika is a data scientist who pivoted to a career in data science after a masters in economics and econometrics.
Resources:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhoomika-jaggi/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Timestamps:00:00 Intro + Background01:51 Bhoomika's message to all econ students everywhere 04:02 Economics Is NOT JUST Finance 05:43 How To Begin Learning Economics (Self Learning) 08:03 Bhoomika's background - 3 degrees in economics 11:07 Out of context and suddenly super technical Master's degree 13:47 PhD in Economics: Structure and Challenges 16:35 Development Economics: Understanding Inequality 20:10 The shocking truth about research in PhD econ 21:36 What is a MS in Econometrics all about? 25:43 The Limitations of Economic Models - Game Theory 28:43 Navigating Data and Economics 33:23 Exploring Poverty and Financial Inclusion 40:23 Is socialism or capitalism better according to Economics Theory? 42:04 Bridging the Gap: Academia and Industry 46:01 Challenges with transitioning to data science 48:37 Tips for landing internships! 51:08 Career Opportunities for Economics PhD Students 54:52 Abundant opps for PhD economics in industry!!