Weighing the Pros and Cons of a Data Science Master's Post-PhD: Downgrade or Necessary Leap?

Hey Redditors, your wisdom is needed!

So, here's my story. I have a PhD in Politics and during my doctoral journey, I found myself increasingly fascinated by data science methods. As a part of a mixed-method research on political narratives online, I even implemented an unsupervised machine learning algorithm. This experience piqued my interest in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its potential applications in political research.

Fast forward to now: I am contemplating diving deeper into data science to fill …

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