Advice for a New Data Scientist Struggling with Criticism

As a relatively new data scientist, I need some frank advice.

I recently switched from a more traditional software engineer role to a more data focused role. I'd describe myself as an exceptional data engineer, and an average, but enthusiastically improving data scientist. To that end, I'm also in school working through a graduate program in data science (50% done).

My issue is that the better I get (at least on paper), the more people seem to criticize my analysis. …

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