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Closet Data Scientists — Who Are They?

Read this if you think you’re ready for a career switch to AI

You have a day job. You spend your off hours on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and running Machine Learning (ML) models on Jupyter notebooks. You dream of a career in data science. You google search “skill sets of a Data Scientist” and frantically try to check off every single item on the list.

Yes I’m talking to you, closet Data Scientist.

Picking Up Skills in an Era of Compressing Technology Waves

The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is progressing so fast that the list of data science skill sets is growing faster than the threat Trump is placing on the global economy.

Google’s Featured Snippet from the search “Data Scientist skill set” yields Statistics, R/Python, ETL, Data Wrangling and Exploration, ML Algorithms, Advanced Machine Learning (Deep Learning), Big Data Processing Frameworks and Data Visualization. KDnuggests published “9 Must-have skills you need to become a Data Scientist”, suggesting that the…