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Essential Skills of a Data Scientist

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Any organization that values data is always desperately hunting for a data scientist or analyst to ease their burdens. It is one of the toughest and most sort after jobs of all time. Becoming a data scientist requires commitment and dedication to one's profession and an entire set of skills unique to the business. There are many skills such as capturing the data, analysis of the captured data, its presentation and many other tiny detailed skills required of a data scientist. Data scientist training also teaches mathematical and statistical skills along with communication and command over programming languages and database, helping one to transform into a great data scientist. An elaborate description of a few main courses is given below to assist your dream of becoming a data scientist. Data Capture This is, of course, the essential skill that a data scientist needs to have. The capturing of data requires essential sub-skills such as programming and database skills and also...

Data Science – Emergence of a new field

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The demand for the data-savvy professionals in the industry are rising at a drastic pace. The availability of professionals, capable to work on data efficiently, is restricted to some extent. This is reflected by the margin of rise in the compensation packages, offered to Data scientists, data analyst, statistician, as well as data engineers. A recently conducted research by McKinsey Global Institute narrates that the limited availability of managerial and analytical talent needed for making the optimal use of Big Data is a key challenge. As per this report, by 2018, the job market in the US alone will have the need for 4 to 5 million data specialist. The major count of these positions will be staffed through retention existing employees as well as through training. The author states that the market is likely to feel the need of more than 1.5 analysts and managers within a span of a few years. Companies shall expect these professionals to have superlative technical and an...