What does a data scientist do?
R-bloggers 2013-03-27
Summary:
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)