I have been a data scientist for more than 3 years. This is what most people want to know about the field.
Most people are shocked and confused when I tell them I'm a data scientist.
Impressed that it is considered such a sophisticated and prestigious title today (although some will still call us statisticians who know how to code).
Confused because… what does data science really mean? And what do we do?
Well, it depends.
About the domain, the company and the team itself.
But in general, data science covers the following categories of work:
- Databases and data engineering.— Many data scientists work closely with databases, whether loading and querying large amounts of data, creating data pipelines, or cleaning and preparing data for analysis. At my last company, I regularly used SQL to access our database and query the data needed to build machine learning models. I also found myself creating and modifying tables to store model results and other analyses.
- Data analysis and visualization.— Data visualization involves not only analyzing the data but…
