The computer professionals having the capability/skill of collecting large volume of heterogeneous data, people processing that data are known as data scientists. Data Science is defined as finding out the actionable insights from the data. As anyone interacts with the technology almost every time data is generated. The role of data scientist is to analyze that data and generate predictions for organizational growth and profit making. Today approx 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are being analyzed each day. For example any organization can apply data science to know the behavior of customers and remind the previous purchases and can create new recommendations for purchase. Let us suppose anyone orders perfume each month, you may find the deals at that time for recommending the perfumes of best deals.
Some of the rewarding carriers in Data Science are
-Data Scientists
-Data Analyst
-Data Engineer
-Business Intelligence Analyst
-Marketing Analyst
Skills needed for Career in Data Science
Data Scientists needs to have good programming skills and good insight for analyzing the data according to need of organization.
The skills can be divided in two parts-
1. Technical Skills: Person must be good enough in Programming, Mathematics and statistics to build a successful career in data science.
2. Non-Technical Skills: The common non technical skills needed are:
-Strong business sense
-Communication skills
-Data insight
