What are the skills necessary to become a data scientist?

Question

#2018goals

Answer 1

Check out the classic Venn diagram for Data Science:
https://goo.gl/images/84Y1h8

Basically, a bit of maths&stats (especially linear algebra, probabilistics), a tad of coding skills (R, Python, Julia) and a deep knowledge of the industry you are working in.

Answer 2

That's great! Machine learning takes a lot from linear algebra, calculus, statistics, heuristics as well as probability theorem. If you know all this and feel confident, plus you got coding skills and some business field insight -- it's practically your moral obligation to step up and become a data scientist! ;)

Answer 3

Then I'd stick to Python for now and focus on maths skills. Any implementation, whether in Py, R or Julia, Java, Scala, Matlab or any other -- it is better recognized and usable, if you got the math skills. Any ML algorithm will do the job practically on its own, you just need to know and understand what each of them does to/with your data :)

Answer 4

Thanks for your response kuba, let me look up the language Julia and R - Fortunately for me i know the basics of python all thanks to sololearn.

Answer 5

If I get you correctly, my next steps should be taking courses on machine learning and understanding ml algorithm. Ps: my maths skills is good.

Answer 6

Thanks very much K.