we're going to talk about the data scientist .what is a data scientist ?

why does
this appear to be such a hot job with the skill set today scientists need?
There's two reasons why organizations are asking this question and they were
asking a lot
the first one is Big Bear so we know that the date is a big trend organizations
want to get all their data they have a lot of data they're not you doing as much
as they could be doing with it decides his job is to find that mean so, if you want
to two big tatted you have to have a data scientist .
the second reason they're asking this question if it were not the skills are a data
scientist because, they're finding it hard to hire. So do you need to hire a PhD in
mathematics or statistics or perhaps you can grow a data scientist with your
existing organization .
what is a data scientist will fundamentally a data scientist is someone who finds
you discovers that's where scientists they make a hypothesis and they try to
investigate that hypothesis in the case but data scientist they do it with Dana
they look for meaning knowledge in the data and they do that in a couple a
different ways one is they visualize the data, they look at the data, they create
reports, and then look for patterns in the data that's very similar to what you
might think of as a traditional business intelligence analyst or data analyst .that's
one of tools today site issues but what really distinguishes a data scientist is do
you serve algorithms advanced algorithms that actually run through the data
looking for all this mean and you may have heard things like machine learning
algorithms are you may have heard out with them such as neural networks are
regression our the church he means there's dozens of these algorithms out there
and essentially they won through the data looking for the meeting that is one of
the fundamental tools a data scientist to use those algorithms the data scientist
has to have a strong foundational knowledge in mathematics and statistics in
some cases computer science and domain knowledge so a data scientist given a
an enormous dataset I'll or maybe not such a big data set in a question so the
question might be like a typical business question might be I love what
customers are likely to charm that is what customers are likely to up you know
go to a competitor that may be a very good question for data scientist to answer
and the data scientist would go about that by gathering all the data running out
for them till they can find some reliable patent answer that question another
question a data scientist my answer I a recommendation they may try to answer
the question I how can I improve the recommendations in a movie
recommendation in fact that's exactly what Netflix did on Netflix had a I ran a
contest where they would pay a million dollars to anyone who can improve their
recommendation engine by just 10 percent I five data scientist actually came up
with algorithm sign ensemble diagrams to do that so data scientist aren't you
answering questions and the using data to answer those questions using
combination of data in the Alps when you have a large datasets you rely on
many more algorithms and so the fundamental knowledge for data scientist is to
try to understand those out now when you think I've who is a data scientist

there's a lot of myths out there okay let me tell you what data scientist is not a
data scientist is not a programmer another Java programmer who knows who do
okay I many people are billing themselves as data scientist because they have
certain technical skills that's on a data scientist that someone who may be knows
how to run do knows how to integrate data knows how to run it in less than a
also understand some of these discovery techniques in these algorithms in my
mind I don't qualify as a data scientist now look having said that many software
developers actually have taken classes in artificial intelligence machine learning
and me understand some of the techniques that this yeah thing a data scientist
is not it is not a Business Intelligence Analyst Business Intelligence Analyst may
create reports and dashboards but they're doing not based upon what they think
is important in the data adidas scientist might hypothesize what they think is
important but they're going to use these algorithms to kind of confirm those
hypothesis so there's kind of a gap here between a business intelligence person
and a programmer the programmer might have the technical skills the business
intelligence person may have a lot of business domain knowledge I the data
scientist however needs both have those skills they need some technical skill
they need some domain knowledge but they need is fundamental knowledge
about how crime statistics mathematics a scientific Matt so that's why its it's a
little difficult to find data scientist right now because there's a it's a very unique
skill set now having said that their ways that you can't do data science without
getting a master's up with Fr this by using tools alright more sophisticated tools
that are doing some the heavy lifting meta data scientists are normally would
have to do you can use the software tools and or more getting developed on
every day because the market demand so this is going to kind of give the
businessperson the ability to do some type of data science work will you be able
to do it all now I mean a large organization is going to need a hard core data
science scientist but I heart for data scientist is not going to be able to handle all
over the world that's available someone at work can be farmed out to some
business analysts now the other thing you have to think about the data scientist
is point is the fundamental life cycle the discovery life cycle data science there's
a coupla stages the first stage is understanding the date and prepping the data
that is getting all the data you need before you run the algorithms on it to see if
you can find some of us now survey after survey of data scientists a show that
between 70 and 80 percent data scientists time is spent on assembling that data
that is not a highly efficient way to use those unique skills for data science
because often that assembly have data Mike making a sequel statement or are
doing so text mining get map data set together is a job that can be done by data
integration specialist or technical specialist so one other things that you want to
do when I read data scientist in your organization is to assign other roles which
can help leverage that dated the data scientist skill set so you want people who
have who understand the data in your organization and who understand the
techniques for integrating and whether to ETL whether to do getting that dataset
together so the day is so the data scientist can spend most time I what's most
valuable which is focusing on the discovery process focusing on running the
algorithms and finding predictive models or new knowledge within that dataset
so higher data scientist who has their skills but make sure that you have internal

people who understand Davis dataset if you hire it is scientist wrong look your
company house lost some of today's just in a data warehouse for database you
may have hundreds I've database for hundreds of database tables with different
field names for that data scientist to be productive on his or her own would take
months just understand all this data sources so that's why if you hire data
scientist from the outside team of with someone on internally who knows your
day resources and who can't put all those data sources together I hope this
explains not serve what you need to look for data scientist and how best to
leverage this data scientist skills