Data scientists should have 6 different talents

Recruitment information search engine indeed.com data show that with the development of large data technology, data mining talents become increasingly sought-after. The Harvard Business Review recently announced that "data scientists" were the sexiest jobs of the 21st century. The so-called sexy, not only represents an indescribable temptation, but also shows that people do not know what it does.

So what talent should such talents have? Teradata chief technology Officer Baoliming believes that data scientists should have 6 abilities or skills:

1. Curiosity. Data scientists should be born to deal with data and look at data from different angles.

2. Experience and intuition. Where you start to learn about data, you need experience and intuition.

3. Design the experiment scene. Know how to virtual and hypothetical scenarios and get the data. If you don't get the data, understand why.

4, to grasp the statistical capacity and knowledge. Many people have little knowledge of statistics, and many people don't know about relationships, data value, and sampling.

5, will do data mining, know how to predict the future.

6. Ability to communicate ideas with others. Not in the language of mathematics, but in the commercial language to communicate with others.

Baoliming points out that data scientists are important to companies that are based on data-making decisions, but this is a rare talent. However, he believes that those who study mathematics, statistics and other professional talents can develop into data scientists in the future.

"Companies can recruit people who learn math and statistics and become data scientists." You can also recruit people who study physics, chemistry, and even sociology. "Baoliming said.

Baoliming says it may not be easy for people who simply study physics to find work, but because they do experiments, they set up experimental scenes and analyze and count data, so they are expected to become data scientists.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)