What is a data scientist? What is its scope? How can one become a data scientist?

Data Scientist is a person employed to analyses and interpret complex digital data, such as the usage statistics of a website, especially in order to assist a business in its decision-making. Data Scientists are those who perform data Science. A Data scientist performs research and analyses data and help companies flourish by predicting growth, trends and business insights based on a large amount of data. They take this huge data and use their skills in mathematics, statistics and programming to clean and organize the data. All their analysis combined with industrial knowledge helps to uncover hidden solutions to business challenges. It is a blend of 3 major domains 1. Expertise in mathematics, 2. Technical and programming skills 3. Business and strategy awareness combine to form Data Science.

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