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What Data Scientists Actually Do
Part of the Data Science Roadmap
In short
Data scientists frame ambiguous business problems as data problems, build models or analyses to solve them, and communicate results well enough that someone actually acts on them.
How to learn this
- 1Read 2-3 'day in the life of a data scientist' posts from different companies.
- 2List the last 5 product decisions a company you use was probably informed by data science.
- 3Notice how much of the real job is framing the problem, not just running an algorithm.
More topics at this stop
Data Scientist vs Data Analyst vs ML EngineerThe Data Science Lifecycle (CRISP-DM)Types of Data Science Roles (Research, Applied, Product)Data-Driven vs Model-Driven DecisionsCommon Industries for Data ScientistsA Day in the Life of a Data ScientistThe Data Science Career LadderKey Tools Overview (Python, SQL, ML, Stats)
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