Find Out If You Are A Data Scientist In The Making
Rule #1: You need to have an understanding of the data itself.
If you’re asking questions such as “What are the unique identifiers in this list of customers?” or “What field is having an impact on my business decisions and how can I enrich it?” then maybe you have a little bit of data scientist in you.
Cleansing, blending, and preparing isn’t just for your skincare routine. It’s also for your data and is critical in allowing you to get the most value out of your business data.
A data scientist can take the hard work of tracking and analyzing the data coming in from customers across multiple channels by inputting everything into our go-to system, Alteryx. Find out more here.
Sometimes, data might be missing for your customers/clients, but a data scientist thinks of a genius solution to impute this missing, but crucial, data. All of these thought processes are things that must go through data scientists’ mind every day.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
What is the problem you are looking to solve? A data scientist has to be good, if not an expert, in the field of problem-solving - By utilizing the tools on offer and implementing them into real-life situations, you are able to bring great value to the team and the organization’s efficiency. This doesn’t mean you need to get the most top-spec, all singing and dancing programs to solve your problems. It’s just learning to work on-the-go and knowing how to use a data analytics tool to help solve your problems.
You don’t need to have a background in coding to become a data scientist.
Know your own limitations - There will never be a perfect model to solving data issues, which makes data science a victim of subjective elements.
Be analytical in your approach - By understanding the shortcomings of your data/model, you must always play devil’s advocate with any solution you build, as the model may look good on the outside, but there is always room for improvement.
All models are wrong, but some are useful - George E.Box
Does this article speak to you? Are you nodding your head thinking ‘Yes, I could do this job’?
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