What is a Data Scientist?

A nice short and sweet video about what a data scientist is. Josh Wills of Cloudera defines a data scientist as follows:

Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician.

I would say that definition is pretty good.

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®4|\/|1®0 9ó|\/|32 (@yaph) says:

October 17, 2012 at 3:46 am

“Data Scientist is a Data Analyst who lives in California” isn’t bad either.

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1. Ryan Swanstrom says:
  
  October 17, 2012 at 9:45 am
  
  Ha, that is true.
  
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®4|/|1®0 9ó|/|32 (@yaph) says:

October 17, 2012 at 3:46 am

“Data Scientist is a Data Analyst who lives in California” isn’t bad either.

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Udit Kulshrestha says:

October 17, 2012 at 9:00 am

How to become one ….

If I want to start from scratch, than how to begin ?

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1. Ryan Swanstrom says:
  
  October 17, 2012 at 12:15 pm
  
  Keep following the blog. I have plans to put up a “curriculum” path to becoming a data scientist. Also, you can see some of the previous posts here: https://datascience101.wordpress.com/category/curriculum-2/
  Thanks for reading and commenting.
  
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