What is a Data Scientist - Quick Recap

Data Scientist  



   
Data scientist as the name suggest is a Data Science Professional that does analysis of cleaned data(data that has been cleaned and formatted) and ascertains some useful & actionable insights in the process of formulating patterns.

With the integration of the broad spectrums of Computer Science(CSE) with mathematics and statistics and business Knowledge brings about the integration of fields of machine learning and traditional research that are supported by the software era that in turns leads to the  false dichotomy of niche and vastness that is  data science.   

To be a data scientist is being able to gather data, clean and format data and the apply statistics, mathematics and algorithms to get keen and actionable insights which then has to be presented on a data visualization for a layman to be able to understand it.

Skills required to be a data scientist include:
  1. Mathematics
  2. Statistics
  3. Data Cleaning
  4. Data Formatting
  5. Data Visualization tools like tableau ,Excel VBA & Power BI
  6. Python Fundamentals
  7. Python Libraries including NumPy, Pandas and Matplotlib
  8. Scikit-learn
  9. Domain Knowledge
  10. Communication Skills 
  11. Soft and interpersonal Skills
  12. Database Management(DBMS) 
  13. SQL(Structured Query Language)
  14. Machine Learning 
  15. Deep Learning 
  16. Deployment tools like Microsoft Azure



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