Profession of Data Science
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Data Science is applied in a number of industries and domains with varying success and varying ethical conundrums. This lessons takes a look at the profession of data science and its impact on business.
Objectives
Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to
Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to
- list industries where data science is used
- define a professional data scientist
Suggested Readings
- Naimat, Aman (2016). The Big Data Market: A Data-Driven Analysis of Companies Using Hadoop, Spark, and Data Science. O'Reilly.
- Overton, Jerry (2016). Going Pro in Data Science. O'Reilly.
- Veeramachaneni, Kalyan (2016). Why You’re Not Getting Value from Your Data Science, Harvard Business Review, Dec 7, 2016.
- 100 Data Science Interview Questions.
- Rundell, Michael (2016). 109 Commonly Asked Data Science Interview Questions. Springboard.