What Makes a Good Data Scientist?

Jeremy Howard is the Chief Scientist at Kaggle. At the end of this interview, from the Strata Conference 2012, he identified 4 simple traits that a data scientist needs.

  1. Creativity
  2. Open-mindedness
  3. Tenacity
  4. A Good Skillset

Jeremy Howard of Kaggle at Strata 2012

In this brief interview he covers a range of other data science topics:

  • Big Data is an engineering problem
  • Analytics generate value/insight from data
  • Predictive Modeling is about answering a question – build a model to do that
  • Is Data Science about tools or people? – watch the video for Jeremy’s answer
  • And others…

See this previous post for more videos from Strata 2012.


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