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Data Scientist

Data Scientist

  • Transform raw data into insights that drive business decisions and innovation.
  • Impact industries by predicting trends and optimizing processes with data analysis.
  • Uncover hidden patterns and tell stories through data visualization and modeling.
💰 Earn $94K-$173K
📚 Bachelor Degree

Overview

Develop and implement a set of techniques or analytics applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualization software. Apply data mining, data modeling, natural language processing, and machine learning to extract and analyze information from large structured and unstructured datasets. Visualize, interpret, and report data findings. May create dynamic data reports.

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Minimum Education

Bachelor Degree

Career Prospects

Excellent (Increasing by 5% or more)

Training Time

2 to 4 years

Job Openings

20,800 in Total

Earnings

$133,690 Med. in CA

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Day-to-Day

  • Analyze, manipulate, or process large sets of data using statistical software.
  • Apply feature selection algorithms to models predicting outcomes of interest, such as sales, attrition, and healthcare use.
  • Apply sampling techniques to determine groups to be surveyed or use complete enumeration methods.
  • Clean and manipulate raw data using statistical software.
  • Compare models using statistical performance metrics, such as loss functions or proportion of explained variance.

Best For You If...

YOU Like 💕

  • Using data or completing tasks
  • Thinking and problem solving

You are skilled in 💫

  • Active Listening
  • Speaking
  • Critical Thinking
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Mathematics

You value 🙏

  • Accomplishing things
  • Receiving recognition
  • Independence
  • Having freedom
  • Achievement
  • Recognition

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Pathways to this Career

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