
About this career
The data explosion – fueled by increased bandwidth and processing power, innovative data analysis tools, and the proliferation of inexpensive cloud-based storage solutions – has placed Data Scientist among the most demanded and lucrative IT careers.
Duties of Data Scientist
- Data scientists mine and analyze data from a range of sources, including customer transactions, click streams, sensors, social media, log files and GPS plots.
- Unlock valuable and predictive insights that will influence business decisions and spur a competitive advantage.
- Translate a business case into an analytics agenda, developing hypotheses, and understanding data—as well as exploring patterns to measure what impact they will have on businesses
- Prepare reports using data visualization tools
These skills will help you to reach this career
Technical Skills
- Math (e.g. linear algebra, calculus and probability)
- Statistics (hypothesis testing and summary statistics)
- Machine learning tools
- Software engineering skills
- Data mining / Data warehouse
- Data cleaning and munging
- Data visualization
- R and/or SAS languages
- SQL databases and database querying languages
- Python, C/C++ Java, Perl
- Big data platforms like Hadoop, Hive
- Cloud tools like Amazon S3
Non-Technical Skills
- Strong aptitude
- Algorithmic Thinker
- Problem Solver
- Good critical thinking using numerical skill
- Excellent Quantitative Skills
- Good Communication and Visualization Skills
- Ability to work in team
- Creative and innovative
Sectors for Employment
IT firms
Large businesses
Manufacturing firms
Government
Service sector
Insurance sector
List of Recruiters
Earning Potential
3.5 to 18 lakhs
(or more as per your experience)
How to reach there?
Any of those 4 paths plus extra certification courses supporting this field could lead you towards the career as “Data Scientist”
Computer Science
B.Sc, BCS, B.E., B.Tech, M.Sc,
MCS, M.E., M.Tech, etc.
Data Analysis
M.Sc, MBA, PGD, Certification Course, etc.
Machine Learning
B.Tech, M.Tech, M.Sc, Certification Course,etc.
Statistics
B.Sc, Diploma, M.Sc, M.A., PGD, M.Phil, etc
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