How to start thinking like a data scientist
- 1. How to Start Thinking Like a Data Scientist Nishant Kumar
- 2. Introduction Name of the : How to start thinking like a article Data Scientist Authors : Thomas C. Redman Edition : November 2013 Source : Harvard Business Review
- 3. Who are Data Scientist ? Data Scientists are the people who understands how to fish out the answers to Business Questions from todays Tsunami of unstructured data.
- 4. Why become a Data Scientist ?
- 5. Why become a Data Scientist ? Data Scientist are the “Sexiest “ one .
- 6. What a Data Scientist do? Tools are only part of the picture, “Data Science is much more”
- 7. • In addition to being a set of tools, Data Science is also a set of processes and concepts that acts as a guide for making decisions & progress within a data centric project. “Thinking like a Data Scientist” deals with how these methods & set of tools relate to one another, & how they can be used in concert .
- 8. Who can be called a Data Scientist ? I am a developer and I work with data , Am I a Data Scientist?
- 9. • Developer & data scientist share many skills, and overlap professionally to large scale . • However unlike developers, data scientists work with system that are uncertain, unknown or are not well defined at the start . In short data scientist often deals with probabilities & not absolutes . No the way a developers & data scientists works with data differs .
- 10. Thinking like a Data Scientist . “Awareness” is the secret weapon of the successful data scientist.
- 11. Thinking like a Data Scientist . “Out of box” thinking is other key feature that a data scientist should possess.
- 12. Business value of a Data scientist .
- 13. No doubt, data scientists are asset to an organisation, & play vital role in company’s sales. They can help manager in achieving targets based on previous heuristic approach to data.
- 14. Thinking like a data scientist can help a manager in viewing life practically, governing things based on analysis of practical data.
- 15. As a data scientist always deals with uncertainty, they can avoid undesirable circumstances which can arise as an event unfolds .
- 16. • Thinking like a data scientist will help illuminate understandings of the field whether you’re already experienced data scientist, a developer, a statistician or someone who works with a data scientist .
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