How to Become a Data Scientist If You Lacking the Necessary Skills
Recently, during a lecture for campus recruitment, a student asked me: He only knows math and basic sciences but doesn’t know how to code. Can he still become a data scientist?
First off, yes, absolutely.
How to do it? First, understand if becoming a data scientist is your goal or a part of your journey. From what I see, you’re asking how to achieve this goal.
That involves figuring out what skills you need and which paths to take.
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No one understands all knowledge areas from the start. Generally, school education lays a foundation for your career but that doesn’t mean your learning stops at graduation.
Academia often lags behind market demands. We can’t all start with the skills needed for a job. Even if we have them, they’re just formulas and theories from books, far from what companies actually need.
Take me, for example. I’ve been in the big data field for nearly 15 years, working as a senior data scientist at a giant internet company, and now I’m the chief data architect at a large brokerage firm’s big data department.
