What would you do as a Data scientist?
Data scientists
- usually work regular business hours
- usually work in offices and may travel nationally
- need to be accurate, logical and identify and solve problems
Tasks
- collect and organise data
- assess data quality
- find trends, patterns and insights from data
- use computer programming code to analyse data
- build statistical models
- prepare data reports
- create graphs, charts and infographics
- present information to others
- teach others how to process data
How can you become a Data scientist?
You usually need experience and a qualification to become a data scientist.
You may need
- experience in similar work
- a bachelor's degree in mathematics and statistics, software engineering and computer science or similar area
- a Graduate Diploma in Applied Statistics or similar
- a postgraduate certificate or diploma in mathematics and statistics or similar area
If you're in school
You usually need University Entrance to do the study or training for this job.
