Data Scientist

Technology & ITICA

Pulls answers out of large datasets: turns a question into a model, finds patterns and brings the forecast into a working product.

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?

  1. 1Bachelor's: mathematics, statistics or computer science
  2. 2Practice: Python and ML courses + projects on real data
  3. 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.

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