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Data scientist the sexiest job of the 21st century (article review presentation)
1. ARTICLE REVIEW SESSION
DATA SCIENTIST-THE SEXIEST JOB OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Presented By
C Viswachaithanya Reddy
Siva Sivani Institute of Management, Kompally,Hyderabad
2. INTRODUCTION
Name of the article : Data Scientist- The sexiest
job of the 21st century
Authors : Thomas H. Davenport &
D.J. Patil
Edition : October 2012
Source : Harvard Business Review
3. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Thomas H Davenport:
An American author specializing in analytics, business process innovation and
Knowledge Management.
Director of Research at International Institute of Analytics & Senior Advisor to Deloitte
Analytics.
DJ Patil:
VP of Product at Relatel Q, Advisor at Inside Vault.
He worked as the Head of Data Products, Chief Scientist and CSO for LinkedIn
Corporation (2008-2011).
4. DATA SCIENCE
Data science is the study of the generalizable extraction
of knowledge from data.
It builds on techniques and theories from many fields, including
Mathematics,
Probability models ,
Statistical learning,
Computer programming,
Data engineering,
Pattern recognition and learning,
Visualization & Data Warehousing.
5. DATA SCIENTIST
Data Scientists are the people who understands how to fish out the answers
to Business Questions from todays Tsunami of unstructured data.
.
6. WHY DATA SCIENTIST IS A SEXIEST JOB?
A “data scientist” is a business expert.
A “data scientist” is a statistics expert.
A “data scientist” is a programming expert.
A “data scientist” is a database technology expert.
A “data scientist” is a visualization and communication expert.
7. Objective:
To know about data scientists: where to look for them, how to attract and develop
them, and how to spot a great one.
Theme:
Data scientists abilities, need for data scientists and how to find the data
scientists we need.
8. AUTHORS VIEW:
In this article, it was described that In some of the sectors, shortage of data
scientists has become a serious constraint.
Back in the 1990s, computer engineer and Wall Street “quant” were the hot
occupations in business.
Indeed, Greylock Partners, the VC firm that backed Facebook and LinkedIn, is
so worried about the shortage of data scientists.
“Data Scientists want to build things, not just give advice”
Ex: Jonathan Goldman
9. WHAT DS’S DO?
Identify the different data sources.
Swim in big data.
Find valuable sets in raw data.
Make the formless data structured.
10. SKILLS REQUIRED
Access to data.
Good oral and communication skills.
Good Mathematical and Statistical background to analyze the data.
Preferably can write the computer programming code R, SAS,STATA.
11. LEARNINGS
What companies need what type of Data scientists.
What are the abilities of Data scientists.
Skill set required for Data scientists.
Importance of Data scientists in the organization.
12. CONCLUSION
In this article, Harvard Business School’s Davenport and Patil take a deep dive
on what organizations need to know about data scientists: Finally, data
scientists want to build things, not just give advice.