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I'm in a similar place to the OP - I have a PhD in health science with R and Python experience (and a little hobby experience with TensorFlow and some AWS stuff). Is it worth doing kaggle competitions? I've heard mixed things - some people say companies ignore them, others say they're useful evidence on a CV. Thanks!

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Do them if you're interested but I don't think they're that useful on a CV. If you win a competition, you'll obviously get some attention but just participating and putting it on your CV doesn't do much.

thanks - do you think there's anything obvious I might be missing coming from an academic background in terms of getting attention? I don't know how useful side projects really are, for instance (particularly vs things I've done as part of my research).

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