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.
- Creativity
- Open-mindedness
- Tenacity
- 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.