if you want to further your career in this fieldwhat ' really encourage you to do is talk to your boss if you work at company that has access to some interesting datasets of its ownsee if you can play around with them obviouslyyou want to talk to your boss first before you use any data owned by your companybecause there' probably going to be some privacy restrictions surrounding it you want to make sure that you're not violating the privacy of your company' customersand that might mean that you might only be able to use that data or look at it within controlled environment at your workplace sobe careful when you're doing that if you can get permission to actually stay late at work few days week andyou knowmess around with some of these datasets and see what you can do with itnot only does show that you have the initiative to make yourself better employeeyou might actually discover something that might be valuable to your companyand that could just make you look even betterand actually lead to an internal transfer perhapsinto field more directly related to where you want to take your career soif you want some career advice from mea common question get is"heyi' an engineeri want to get more into data sciencehow do do that?the best way to do it is just do ityou knowactually do some side projects and show that you can do it and demonstrate some meaningful results from it show that to your boss and see where it leads you good luck