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> The best data scientists are just people who try to understand the ins and outs of business processes and look at problems with healthy suspicion and curiosit
by Eugeleo 6y ago
> The best data scientists are just people who try to understand the ins and outs of business processes and look at problems with healthy suspicion and curiosity
I guess the unsaid part of this is “... and curiosity AND are often able to leverage this in data-driven solutions to bussiness problems”. Because nobody cares whether you’re curious or not if you don’t bring any value to the company. With that said, the part you mentioned almost seems like an innate ability, while the part I filled in could probably be trained.
Suppose you were still in college and wanted to become a data scientist. Based on your current knowledge and values, how would you go about it, being a student? Which skills would you hone and how?
- ryndbfsrw 6y agoYes, it’s a given you need to understand what the different techniques are doing and when to apply them, but rarely to the level of depth expected in these white-board interviews that are often just thinly-disguised ways to grill and belittle nervous candidates. If I could redo my twenties, I would tell myself to choose some topic I cared about, find publicly available data on that topic, and just start exploring the dataset with basic pivot tables and graphs. Ideally write up what you found and publish it somewhere. As you find interesting things in your data you'll naturally start asking more questions and you'll learn modeling techniques as a function of those questions and writing about will help you become a clear communicator (this matters far more than technical knowledge)