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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5 responses to “What is a Data Scientist?”

  1. ®4|\/|1®0 9ó|\/|32 (@yaph) Avatar

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

  2. ®4|/|1®0 9ó|/|32 (@yaph) Avatar

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

  3. Udit Kulshrestha Avatar
    Udit Kulshrestha

    How to become one ….

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

    1. Ryan Swanstrom Avatar

      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.

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