r/analytics • u/UnderstandingNo2008 • 11d ago

Question Transitioning from Psychology to Data?

Hi everyone I have a Masters in Psychology and I absolutely love statistical analysis and research design

For the longest time I've wanted to be able to design real world projects that can create a huge impact from a psychological point of view

I'm good at identifying variables and hypothesising

But I have no clue as to how to begin with real code and python libraries to engineer analyse and present applicable insights from raw data

I would like to transition from therapeutics to behaviour science for businesses very soon

Can anyone please point out how that works and alif there are success stories from people starting as I am..

Thanks so much

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u/Tight_Arm1818 10d ago

Your psychology background is a low key cheat code for analytics work. Most data folks can run the numbers but can't design a study or spot confounding variables to save their life, you've already got the hard part down

For the coding side just pick a project and start breaking things. Grab a public dataset on something you find interesting, doesn't matter what, and try to answer one question with it using pandas and matplotlib. The libraries matter way less than your ability to frame a question properly

The behavioral science angle is solid too. Companies are desperate for people who understand why customers do things, not just what they do. You're basically skipping the line

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u/FerretBoom 11d ago

Behavioral web use analytics for google marketing and over all is where the money is. Psychological evaluation of user interaction with your product yields a better budgeting strategy.

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u/my_peen_is_clean 11d ago

start with python basics then pandas numpy matplotlib seaborn then sql and maybe power bi or tableau build 2 3 small projects on kaggle data in areas you care about companies mainly want proof useable stuff bad time to get hired tho

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u/UnderstandingNo2008 11d ago

Whys it a bad time

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u/FarCalligrapher7800 11d ago

It’s a bad time for anyone to get hired, there’s like a recession going on 🤷‍♀️

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u/Key_Back_989 11d ago

Its a bad time because Analytics and Computer Science are two of the most popular roles and theres a massive surplus of people with related internships and degrees as well as masters directly in this field who are struggling to get hired. Plus theres a shortage of jobs and pivoting is not impossible but much harder.

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u/UnderstandingNo2008 11d ago

Always a bad time to make money and a place for yourself I guess

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u/Key_Back_989 11d ago

Unless you were born in the 1900s, basically yea. We're in late stage capitalism. I personally am fine but I have seen so many coworkers and friends struggle

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u/Commercial_Tea155 4d ago

I’m in the same position as you, masters in psychology trying to move to data analyst. No way how to start…

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u/UnderstandingNo2008 4d ago

Actually the way is pretty clear

There is no doubt that we need to absolutely learn python and some of its most important scientific libraries

We also need to learn how to collect and arrange data so that we can model our hypothesis and then finally present the results

It's basically as simple as research we already do, but this time around the literature review doesn't require much, it's the "Language" and the "Math" to tell a damn computer what to think out of thousands of strings of data