What is the ideal way to become a data scientist?
116 Views|Posted 2016-06-05 16:32:33
Asked by Prasham Mehta
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2016-06-07 15:32:30
From my perspective, the "triple threat" of a good data scientist is:
programming knowledge
statistics knowledge
communication skills
You obviously have part 1 pretty well handled. You should probably look into learning a programming language that is more useful for exploratory data work, like Pyth
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2016-06-07 15:57:09
So is it OK if one doesn't have a degree or certificate in either of the three and yet have knowledge of all three?

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6 years ago
Hi,
There are a lot of ideal ways to become a Data Scientist. It depends on you totally how far you want to go in this specific field. For learning Data Science from scratch, you need to consider a few short-term courses from well-known organizations. For that, I would highly recommend Imarticus Lea
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