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MODERN DATA SCIENTIST

Data Scientist, the sexiest job of the 21th century, requires a mixture of multidisciplinary skills rangingfrom an intersection of mathematics, statistics, Computer science, communication and business. finding a data scientist is bard. Finding people who understand who a data scientist is. is equally bard. So here is a iittle cheat sheet on who

the modem data scientist really is.

MATH

& STATISTICS

☆    Machinę leammg

☆    Statistical modeling

☆    Expeiiment design

☆    Bayesian inference

& Supemsed leaming; decision trees. random forests, logistic regression

<r Unsupemsed leaining: clusteiing. dimensionality reduction

Optimization: gradient descent and variants

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE & SOFT SKILLS

Passionate about the business •fr Curious about data <r Influence without authoiity

☆    Hacker mmdset

☆    Problem solver

Strategie, pioactive, creative, innovative and collaboiative

PROGRAMMING & DATABASE

☆    Computer science fundamentals Scnpting language eg. Python

☆    Statistical computing packages. eg.. R

☆    Databases SOL and NoSQL Relational algebra

•ćr Parallel databases and parallel query Processing

MapReduce concepts

Hadoop and Hive/Pig

Custom reducers

Expenence with xaaS like AWS

COMMUNICATION

&VISUALIZATION

☆    Able to engage with senior management

<t Stoiy telling skills

h Translate data driven insights into decisions and actions

☆    Visual art design

☆    R packages like splot or lattice

☆    Knowledge of any of visualization tools eg Flarę. D3 js. Tableau

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