The document discusses the roles of data scientists and data analysts. It notes that data scientists are highly sought after positions that require strong skills in machine learning, programming, mathematics, and statistics. Data analysts focus more on visualization and summarizing past data, while data scientists create predictive models to improve future outcomes. The key competencies of data scientists are discussed as academic curiosity, storytelling ability, strong statistical and machine learning knowledge, engineering experience, and creativity.
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“Levare il
superfluo dalla
materia per
ridurre a forma
di corpo che
nella idea dello
artefice è
disegnata".
(Vasari – architech
and writer – 16th-
century)
“Remove the
superfluous
from the
material to
reduce to a body
shape that in the
idea of the artist
is designed”
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The McKinsey Global Institute
predicted that by 2018 the U.S. could
face a shortage of 1.5 million people
who know how to leverage data
analysis to make effective decisions
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The first steps on your path to
professional data viz
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Data Career Paths
Degree courses
Engineering
Statistics
Mathematics
...
Data Science
Masters
Mix of computer
science, statistics,
sociology, economic
Online Resources
Massive Open Online
Courses (MOOC)
Tutorials
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Data Scientist
key competences
Machine LearningProgramming languages Math, Stats
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“ Academic curiosity is a desire to go
beneath the surface and distill a problem
into a very clear set of hypotheses that can
be tested [...] look at the available data sets
and sources to figure out an experiment or
a model that solves one of the company’s
problems.
Thomson Nguyen
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Personalized
Information Access
▪ Help the user in finding the information
they might be interested in
▪ Consider their preferences/past
behaviour
▪ Filter irrelevant information
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“ If I had to express my views about
the digital future – that of Europe
or indeed, of the whole world - I
could do it with one word: data.
Andrus Ansip, Vice-President
Digital Single Market
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