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The Data Scientist with no data!
Summary
- A history of a Statistician / Nurse.
- A story of a today’s Data Scientist life at work.
- A guess of what tomorrow’s Data Scientist will do.
First, a tale from history:
In November 1854, Florence Nightingale arrived in Scutari to serve as a nurse during Crimean War. She had a gift for mathematics from an early age, too. At the war hospital, she was faced with suffering, pain, and chaos.
“Wounded soldiers often arrived with diseases like typhus, cholera and dysentery. More men died from these diseases than from their injuries.” (1)
During the day she served as a nurse and during the night she had another mission — she was known as ‘Lady with the Lamp’. She was collecting data and analyzing the causes of soldiers’ mortality. When she got back to London, she visualized the data and got into raising awareness activities. She had shown, based on data, that soldiers’ injuries were not the main cause of deaths. She went on to establish the Army Medical College in Chatham in 1859 and continued to contribute for her cause. Her personal pain and suffering is only to be imagined, yet she prevailed to serve humanity through making use of data.
Second, a story of today:
The story of today’s Data Scientist resembles a bit the Nightingale’s work — especially about lacking data while desperately needing to understand the situation of soldiers. Today, not all Data Scientists save lives, but many actually do!
Many of today’s Data Scientists most probably would welcome more data, data streams, data sources, data infrastructure, and data engineering support. Yet, they are asked to produce better insights, models, inferences, visualizations, and provide consulting on decisions.
Very often Data Scientists are frustrated not because of a model not working in production but rather because of data sources not being available — especially now in the age of GDPR, this will get worse.
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Your Data Architecture: Simple Best Practices for Your Data Strategy
If you accumulate data on which you base your decision-making as an organization, you should probably think about your data architecture and possible best practices.
If you accumulate data on which you base your decision-making as an organization, you most probably need to think about your data architecture and consider possible best practices. Gaining a competitive edge, remaining customer-centric to the greatest extent possible, and streamlining processes to get on-the-button outcomes can all be traced back to an organization’s capacity to build a future-ready data architecture.
In what follows, we offer a short overview of the overarching capabilities of data architecture. These include user-centricity, elasticity, robustness, and the capacity to ensure the seamless flow of data at all times. Added to these are automation enablement, plus security and data governance considerations. These points from our checklist for what we perceive to be an anticipatory analytics ecosystem.
#big data #data science #big data analytics #data analysis #data architecture #data transformation #data platform #data strategy #cloud data platform #data acquisition
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50 Data Science Jobs That Opened Just Last Week
Our latest survey report suggests that as the overall Data Science and Analytics market evolves to adapt to the constantly changing economic and business environments, data scientists and AI practitioners should be aware of the skills and tools that the broader community is working on. A good grip in these skills will further help data science enthusiasts to get the best jobs that various industries in their data science functions are offering.
In this article, we list down 50 latest job openings in data science that opened just last week.
(The jobs are sorted according to the years of experience r
1| Data Scientist at IBM
**Location: **Bangalore
Skills Required: Real-time anomaly detection solutions, NLP, text analytics, log analysis, cloud migration, AI planning, etc.
Apply here.
2| Associate Data Scientist at PayPal
**Location: **Chennai
Skills Required: Data mining experience in Python, R, H2O and/or SAS, cross-functional, highly complex data science projects, SQL or SQL-like tools, among others.
Apply here.
3| Data Scientist at Citrix
Location: Bangalore
Skills Required: Data modelling, database architecture, database design, database programming such as SQL, Python, etc., forecasting algorithms, cloud platforms, designing and developing ETL and ELT processes, etc.
Apply here.
4| Data Scientist at PayPal
**Location: **Bangalore
Skills Required: SQL and querying relational databases, statistical programming language (SAS, R, Python), data visualisation tool (Tableau, Qlikview), project management, etc.
Apply here.
5| Data Science at Accenture
**Location: **Bibinagar, Telangana
Skills Required: Data science frameworks Jupyter notebook, AWS Sagemaker, querying databases and using statistical computer languages: R, Python, SLQ, statistical and data mining techniques, distributed data/computing tools such as Map/Reduce, Flume, Drill, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Gurobi, MySQL, among others.
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Getting Started With Data Lakes
Frameworks for Efficient Enterprise Analytics
The opportunities big data offers also come with very real challenges that many organizations are facing today. Often, it’s finding the most cost-effective, scalable way to store and process boundless volumes of data in multiple formats that come from a growing number of sources. Then organizations need the analytical capabilities and flexibility to turn this data into insights that can meet their specific business objectives.
This Refcard dives into how a data lake helps tackle these challenges at both ends — from its enhanced architecture that’s designed for efficient data ingestion, storage, and management to its advanced analytics functionality and performance flexibility. You’ll also explore key benefits and common use cases.
Introduction
As technology continues to evolve with new data sources, such as IoT sensors and social media churning out large volumes of data, there has never been a better time to discuss the possibilities and challenges of managing such data for varying analytical insights. In this Refcard, we dig deep into how data lakes solve the problem of storing and processing enormous amounts of data. While doing so, we also explore the benefits of data lakes, their use cases, and how they differ from data warehouses (DWHs).
This is a preview of the Getting Started With Data Lakes Refcard. To read the entire Refcard, please download the PDF from the link above.
#big data #data analytics #data analysis #business analytics #data warehouse #data storage #data lake #data lake architecture #data lake governance #data lake management
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Data Science: Advice for Aspiring Data Scientists | Experfy Insights
Around once a month, I get emailed by a student of some type asking how to get into Data Science, I’ve answered it enough that I decided to write it out here so I can link people to it. So if you’re one of those students, welcome!
I’ll segment this into basic advice, which can be found quite easily if you just google ‘how to get into data science’ and advice that is less common, but advice that I’ve found very useful over the years. I’ll start with the latter, and move on to basic advice. Obviously take this with a grain of salt as all advice comes with a bit of survivorship bias.
Less Basic Advice:
1. Find a solid community
2. Apply Data Science to Things you Enjoy
3. Minimize the ‘Clicks to Proof of Competence’
4. Learn Through Research or Entry Level Jobs
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#big data & cloud #data science #data scientist #statistics #aspiring data scientist #advice for aspiring data scientists
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5 Indian Companies Recruiting Data Scientists In Large Numbers
According to a recent study on analytics and data science jobs, the number of vacancies for data science-related jobs in India has increased by 53 per cent, since India eased the lockdown restrictions. Moreover, India’s share of open data science jobs in the world has seen a steep rise from 7.2 per cent in January to 9.8 per cent in August.
Here is a list of 5 such companies, in no particular order, in India that are currently recruiting Data Scientists in bulk.
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