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Ask, Answer, Tell, [Suggest?]

Sean J. Taylor interned with the LinkedIn Data Science team and had some cogent observations on what the work can really boil down to:

Most people who describe data science are actually describing what it takes to get the job. (e.g. Take statistics and machine learning courses. Learn such-and-such languages/packages. Hack.). Or they describe how the job is growing in importance. I’m going to describe the actual practice of data science.

The Data Science Loop:

  • Ask a good question.

  • Answer the question while economizing on resources.

  • Communicate your results.

  • (Sometimes) Make recommendations to engineers or managers.

The whole thing is worth a read, but most importantly, the closing graf.

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