Approximately more than 40% of data scientist positions need an advanced degree. Such as an MBA, or Ph.D. More than 80% of Data scientist have master’s degrees. More than 45% have PhDs.
The following are the required data science skills:
After skills , now let’s see the Data scientist Responsibilities:
The following are the required data science skills:
- In-depth knowledge of Python coding. It is the most common language including Perl, Ruby etc.
- Sound knowledge of SAS/R
- It is must that Data scientist able to work with unstructured data. Whether it is coming from videos, social media etc.
- Sound skill in SQL database coding.
- Data Scientist should have a good understanding of various analytical functions. For example rank, median etc.
- In depth knowledge of Machine learning requires.
- A Data scientist should familiar with Hive, mahout, Bayesian networks, etc. In data science, knowledge of MySQL is just like an added advantage.
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| What Skills needed to become Data Scientist |
- A Data Scientist role is to predict future based on past patterns.
- The role of Data scientist is to generate its own question.
- As Data scientists have the what ifs
- Data scientist addresses business problems
- Data scientist uses machine learning for extracting information.
- Data cleansing and processing.
- Prediction of the business problem. His roles are to give future results of that business.
- Develop machine learning models and analytical methods.
- Find new business questions that can then add value to the business.
- Data mining using state-of-the-art methods.
- Presenting results in a clear manner and doing the ad-hoc analysis.