benawabe896

I've been given an opportunity to move to Menlo Park and work with Facebook, but I have a stay at home wife and two toddlers. I feel like this is a great opportunity, but also feel like I could be setting myself up for misery. Can a single income household even live near Menlo Park? Will I ever have time for my wife and kids? Thanks in advance for any comments.

Is anyone in the community using this at work? I'm in a place where we can use js, coffeescript, typescript etc... Is clojurescript a viable option?

Hello HN community, I have been working as a LAMP developer for around 8 years now and am thankful to be at the place in my career that I am. (150k at a stable company, low stress, high respect) That being said, I am drawn to data anlysis and data science in general. When I evaluate my experience, I notice that the projects that I enjoyed the most were some sort of analysis. (charts and graphs for internal performance stats, correlation of customer characteristics to product purchases, graphing a customer base to visualize relationship clusters, etc...)

Getting to the point, I'd really like to make the jump from LAMP developer to data analyst/scientist, but I don't really know how. I'm only getting started in performing analysis in a non-brute force way, and have only scratched the surface on things such as random forests, linear regression, and markov chains. While I am an expert in PHP, MySQL, Javascript, etc.., and am very good at working with systems (Fedora, Ubuntu, Apache, VC, CI, etc..), I am a novice in data. Ideally, I'd love to learn on the job, but am open to trading free work for instruction. Will squash bugs for data! :)

Has anyone here made this same type of jump? Would love to hear feedback.

Thanks, Sam