How to become a data scientist

Click for: original source

Author heard a question how one can become a data scientist by many people in recent months. So he decided to spend a great deal of time making this guide so that most people have access to it. By Marcos Silva.

Even the most experienced professionals still have difficulty defining the scope of the data scientist. One possible delimitation is that the data scientist is the person responsible for producing predictive and / or explanatory models using machine learning and statistics.

The article then dives into:

  • What is a data scientist?
  • What is the required background?
  • What to study?
  • Step by step of the subjects
  • Recommendation of courses, books and movies
  • Next steps

The article offers some great advice for anybody in big data, data science, software engineering. Recommended.

[Read More]

Tags data-science big-data machine-learning learning