Unemployed in Search or Content Processing? Go for Data Science
July 27, 2015
I read an amazing write up. The title of this gem of high school counseling is “7 Skills/Attitudes to Become a Better Data Scientist.” What does one need to be a better data scientist? Better python or R programming methods? Sharper mathematical intuition? Ability to do the least upper bound (sup) and greatest lower bound (inf) of a set of real numbers) in your head, without paper, and none of that Mathematica software? Wrong.
What you need is to be intellectually curious, an understanding of business, ability to communicate (none of the Cool Hand Luke pithiness), knowledge of more than one programming language, knowledge of SQL, be a participant in competitions, and read articles like “7 Skills and Attitudes.”
Yep, follow these tips and you too can be a really capable data scientist. Why wait? Act now. Read the “7 Skills” article. Nah, don’t worry about such silly notions as data integrity or statistical procedures. Talk to someone, anyone and you will be 14.28 percent of the way to your goal.
Stephen E Arnold, July 27, 2015
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