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Hands-On Data Science with R
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Hands-On Data Science with R

by Doug Ortiz, Vitor Bianchi Lanzetta, Nataraj Dasgupta, Ricardo Anjoleto Farias
November 2018
Beginner to intermediate
420 pages
10h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Growing your skills

First of all, being a data scientist can mean a lot of things. There are several roles that data people can fit themselves into. For instance, you could grow a narrow and specialized set of skills so that you would mostly craft (wonderful) visualizations, as would an artist, or only handle and maintain datasets as a data curator, or mainly design and deploy very complicated models as a core data scientist.

The bigger the company, the more likely the data scientists are to be divided into specialized teams.

On the other hand, you can grow a very broad skillset and turn into a kind of full-stack data scientist. Each career path will request specific abilities and skills while coming with distinct challenges, rewards, and ...

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ISBN: 9781789139402