Recently I was asked to prepare a presentation on what “Data
Science” is; the audience was database professionals, and some technical
architects. I thought it would be fun to post it here.
There is a lot of confusion (often deliberate) on what “Big
Data” is and what a “Data Scientist” does or should do. I gathered some
definitions from various sources and put them out there to help people to kind
of generate or further their own opinions.
Being myself, I have decided to highlight my favourite
definitions. To me there is too much hype, and a more "down to earth" view is helpful.
To me a “Data Scientist” is someone who has a wide range of
skills:
And especially a personality type that will thrive is a
process (since I see the practice of “Data Science” as a process with a few
loops)
So the path for people with good technical (computer science) skills to become
unicorns is dual, a mix of hard and soft skills:
I have attached the presentation as a movie below:
