Data Science is a broad area and it is a journey to become data scientist. There are various dimensions to it. Some of the areas that are critical and are needed as follows:
1) Skills part -
a) Background and Foundation of Math and Statistics, Probability
b) Programming knowledge (R, Python etc)
c) Industry / Domain knowledge for one or multiple area
d) Story telling ability (End to End) / Data Visualisation / Exploratory Data Analysis - this is data understanding part in CRISP-DM mostly
e) Work with data - data munging, data wrangling, feature engineering - this is the data preparation part in CRISP-DM mostly
f) Fundamentals around Big Data
2) Professional Experience part -
a) Applying skills in a project or multiple projects
b) Lessons learnt and continuous improvement from areas experienced
3) Professional Development / Giveback part -
a) Mentoring
b) Thought leadership using the experience gathered
Of course, above is not an exhaustive list, but intent is to capture some important themes.
Thanks
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Kamal
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