[Information Week]: Getting Into Analytics, with Signafire’s Aimee Lessard

Aimee Lessard didn’t start off as a high-ranking analyst with the intelligence community and data analytics private sector companies. She learned on the job. Here are some of her recommendations for how to get started with analytics, machine learning and AI.

Technology professionals are flocking to online courses these days, looking to gain knowledge of the hot new coding language or the skill that will command higher pay and more opportunities. Certifications can pave the way to landing a new job.

But some people may have a natural talent for the technology and find their way to the top of their field without formal training. Aimee Lessard had joined the US Marine Corps and was working in administration — spending 4 years making ID cards.

“I didn’t go to college,” she told InformationWeek in an interview. “I had a very good Officer-in-Charge who realized I might be a little brighter than some of my peers and suggested I give analysis a chance.”

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