The Data Science Team (Part 5)
The Data Scientist
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3 min readJul 15, 2022
Previous Article: Part 4: The Data / Business Analyst
Job Scope
- Try to find patterns in the data and answer the questions about the future, i.e prediction.
- Tools used: Statistics, Machine learning and Deep learning
- Recommendation Systems = a ranking system to predict the order of popularity.
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) to predict what a sentence means.
- The best way to describe a data scientist is someone who “use data to solve the company’s problems”.
- This could be anything, depending on the company’s size.
- You might see a data scientist doing lots of analyst’s and engineer’s jobs in a small startup.
- In a larger company, they are more likely to focus on what we just talked about.
How to Be A Data Scientist
- Barrier to entry for data science is high.
- It’s a relatively new field.
- Most data science jobs require domain specific knowledge.
Step 1:
- You need to see if programming and data analysis is something, you’re interested in.
Step 2:
- Learn some basic coding and introductory data science course to see if it’s right for you.
Step 3:
- Get an undergraduate education in data science.
Step 4:
- Highly recommended to make connections and undergo internships.
Step 5:
- Graduate levels of education are highly valued.
- To move up in your company or get a better job, you may need to pursue a Master’s degree or even a PhD.
Step 6:
- Even after getting your foot in the door, you’ll be learning for years to come.
- Hard work and dedication will be required on this path
Example
About Dr. Alvin Ang
Dr. Alvin Ang earned his Ph.D., Masters and Bachelor degrees from NTU, Singapore.
Previously he was a Principal Consultant (Data Science) as well as an Assistant Professor. He was also 8 years SUSS adjunct lecturer. His focus and interest is in the area of real world data science. Though an operational researcher by study, his passion for practical applications outweigh his academic background
He is a scientist, entrepreneur, as well as a personal/business advisor. More about him at www.AlvinAng.sg.
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