Is data science only for substantive specialist?
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Right now there is a lot of hype for data science. Everyone is learning it. There are lots of courses and boot camps being offered. Unlike software engineering, however, are data scientists required to have a specialization in a specific domain? For example, if you wanted to be data scientist in and work on topics in biology, would you need to know a lot about biology?
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Right now there is a lot of hype for data science. Everyone is learning it. There are lots of courses and boot camps being offered. Unlike software engineering, however, are data scientists required to have a specialization in a specific domain? For example, if you wanted to be data scientist in and work on topics in biology, would you need to know a lot about biology?
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Data Science requires some basic specialisations. You need knowledge of computer science, mathematics specifically statistics and a bit of calculus as well. Data scientists process and work upon data which comes from various branches such as biology, literature, CS etc.
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Right now there is a lot of hype for data science. Everyone is learning it. There are lots of courses and boot camps being offered. Unlike software engineering, however, are data scientists required to have a specialization in a specific domain? For example, if you wanted to be data scientist in and work on topics in biology, would you need to know a lot about biology?
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Right now there is a lot of hype for data science. Everyone is learning it. There are lots of courses and boot camps being offered. Unlike software engineering, however, are data scientists required to have a specialization in a specific domain? For example, if you wanted to be data scientist in and work on topics in biology, would you need to know a lot about biology?
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Data Science requires some basic specialisations. You need knowledge of computer science, mathematics specifically statistics and a bit of calculus as well. Data scientists process and work upon data which comes from various branches such as biology, literature, CS etc.
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Data Science requires some basic specialisations. You need knowledge of computer science, mathematics specifically statistics and a bit of calculus as well. Data scientists process and work upon data which comes from various branches such as biology, literature, CS etc.
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– Shubham Panchal
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Data Science requires some basic specialisations. You need knowledge of computer science, mathematics specifically statistics and a bit of calculus as well. Data scientists process and work upon data which comes from various branches such as biology, literature, CS etc.
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Data Science requires some basic specialisations. You need knowledge of computer science, mathematics specifically statistics and a bit of calculus as well. Data scientists process and work upon data which comes from various branches such as biology, literature, CS etc.
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It really depends on the project that you are working on. Domain expertise can be useful for interpreting feature importance or interpreting the significance of results from a model. Generally, when you are talking about applied subjects like biology etc. you do not need to be an expert in this field to work on data science related projects.
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It really depends on the project that you are working on. Domain expertise can be useful for interpreting feature importance or interpreting the significance of results from a model. Generally, when you are talking about applied subjects like biology etc. you do not need to be an expert in this field to work on data science related projects.
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It really depends on the project that you are working on. Domain expertise can be useful for interpreting feature importance or interpreting the significance of results from a model. Generally, when you are talking about applied subjects like biology etc. you do not need to be an expert in this field to work on data science related projects.
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It really depends on the project that you are working on. Domain expertise can be useful for interpreting feature importance or interpreting the significance of results from a model. Generally, when you are talking about applied subjects like biology etc. you do not need to be an expert in this field to work on data science related projects.
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It really depends on the project that you are working on. Domain expertise can be useful for interpreting feature importance or interpreting the significance of results from a model. Generally, when you are talking about applied subjects like biology etc. you do not need to be an expert in this field to work on data science related projects.
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Data Science requires some basic specialisations. You need knowledge of computer science, mathematics specifically statistics and a bit of calculus as well. Data scientists process and work upon data which comes from various branches such as biology, literature, CS etc.
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