From 3433d87d4f3697fbe25f69297eff0a49930fc0a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Huntington Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 20:10:45 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Possible Answers: Qualities Of A Data Scientist And You --- intro.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/intro.md b/intro.md index ef7745f..8912d3b 100644 --- a/intro.md +++ b/intro.md @@ -39,3 +39,21 @@ Let's talk through the following questions in groups: 3. What is your field of expertise? 4. Do you use tools such as Excel, Stata, R, or Python? 5. Where are you in the intersection of these skills? + +## Possible Answers: Qualities Of A Data Scientist And You + +- Ask good questions: + - What is required? + - How are results evaluated? (measures of success) + - What do we currently know? (existing data) + - What has happened? (descriptive analytics) + - What will happen (if)? (predictive analytics) + - What to do to achieve what we require? (insight) +- Define and test a hypothesis/run experiments. +- Scrape, & sample business relevant data. +- Manipulate, sanitize, and wrangle data. +- Visualize data. +- Understand data relationships. +- Tell the machine how to learn from data. +- Create data products that deliver actionable insight. +- Tell relevant business stories from data.