What does a Data Scientist do?
- Turns a business question into a data problem
- Collects, cleans and explores the data
- Builds, trains and validates the model
- Explains the result to the team and ships it into the product
Which skills do you need?
PythonStatisticsMachine learningSQLData visualisationExperiment designExplaining results
How to become a Data Scientist?
- 1Bachelor's: mathematics, statistics or computer science
- 2Practice: Python and ML courses + projects on real data
- 3Portfolio: solved problems — junior data scientist
What is the work environment like?
Deep work at the computer: often remote or hybrid. Long stretches of analysis alternate with short team discussions.