What does a data scientist do?

R-bloggers 2013-03-27

(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

The presentation below by Carlos Somohano (founder of Data Science London) provides the best description of a Data Scientist that I've seen in some time:

Highlights include:

On Slide 14, a history of the Data Science
On Slide 22, the essential skills of data scientists (and a platypus)
On Slide 26, 10 things data scientists do
On Slide 27, a data scientist toolkit (including R, of course)
On Slides 37-38, the data science process
On Slides 44-52, examples of data products

Data Science London (SlideShare): Big Data [sorry] & Data Science: What Does a Data Scientist Do (via Milinda Thielbar)

To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on his blog: Revolutions.

R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials on topics such as: visualization (ggplot2, Boxplots, maps, animation), programming (RStudio, Sweave, LaTeX, SQL, Eclipse, git, hadoop, Web Scraping) statistics (regression, PCA, time series,ecdf, trading) and more...