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.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6kZkq3rdwc?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360%5D
“Data Scientist is a Data Analyst who lives in California” isn’t bad either.
Ha, that is true.
“Data Scientist is a Data Analyst who lives in California” isn’t bad either.
How to become one ….
If I want to start from scratch, than how to begin ?
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: http://datascience101.wordpress.com/category/curriculum-2/
Thanks for reading and commenting.