How I became a Data Scientist during COVID (as a Doctor)

5 takeaways from an unconventional career transition

Chris Lovejoy
Towards Data Science
8 min readAug 19, 2020

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Background

3 years ago, I had just finished medical school and started working full-time as a doctor in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Now, I work full-time as a data scientist at dunnhumby, writing code for “Big Data” analytics with Python…

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Data Scientist + Junior Doctor in London, Cambridge medicine grad, striving to improve healthcare through technology and education. chrislovejoy.me