From the course: Introduction to Career Skills in Data Analytics

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Data scientists

Data scientists

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Data scientists

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- People often pursue data with the hopes of becoming a data scientist. And I believe it's important to know that not all data professionals grow into data scientists, nor do we need all analysts or engineers to turn into data scientists. Data scientists will likely have all the skills of the analyst engineer and they will have likely worked in those roles. However, a data scientist will have a heavier requirement for skills in coding, mathematics, and statistics. A data scientist will be instrumental in developing tools and instruments that provide valuable insight to the organization, but they can't do it alone without all the other roles, or well, maybe they can perform the task, but when you don't have all the other roles, the data scientists must perform them. Data scientists or data science teams comprised of all the disciplines will interpret large sets. They'll likely build machine learning models. They'll present…

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