In the year 2020, we have been noticing the demand of data scientist as a career option for many people. Along with demand the number, as well as opportunities of certified data scientist, have increased in a large number but an organization fails to find a data scientist who is exceptionally qualified as compared to the other fellow scientist. This article provides one with a necessary path and skill required to shape one’s career as a certified data scientist along with a minimum earning of 62833 USD to 137870 USD per year. The term “data scientist” was initially used for professional having deep analytical experience, industrial knowledge as well as certified skills which was later used for a person having an industrially recognized designation. He/she plays a role of extracting insight from a potential business irrespective of the structured or unstructured data impact. People with such designation never fail to secure a high rank in the team lead or a higher position in an analytical organization. They are in high demand starting from a small business organization to MNCs and govern almost everything, including the HR, marketing, sales as well as supply chain.
One needs the following educational qualification.
- A person opting to be a data scientist for his/her career needs to have a graduation degree from any of the streams, including science, commerce and humanities.
- He/she must also have certifications acquired or owned from networking, internships, recognized academic qualifications and extracurricular certifications that add up to the resume.
- The person also needs to have MOOCs along with self-guided learning academic courses which are both cheap or free, targeted or short and allows the person to complete his/ her own projects with an extendable time.
- The aspiring data scientist needs to know that boot camps are faster and more intense than having old and traditional degrees.
So, if a person is aspiring to become a data scientist in future, he/she needs to be aware of the required educational qualifications and prospects listed above.
Some of the advantages of becoming a data scientist in the personal as well as professional lives
Being a data scientist, and possessing such technical skills benefits a person widely and gives a kick start to their career as:
- A person is aspiring to become a data scientist masters himself/herself in the subject of a statistic as well as maths which benefits the organization in the field of hypothesis testing as well as summary statistics.
- The person makes himself/herself capable enough to learn the Machine Learning tools and techniques which, as a result, benefits the neighbours, random forest and so on.
- He/she also expertise in the data mining and acquires software engineering skills such as distributed computing, algorithms and data structures.
- The specialization in the visualization and reporting techniques opens up wider prospects and provides the person with the ideas of data cleaning as well as munging.
- An aspiring data scientist trains himself/ herself to deal with unstructured data techniques and becomes compatible enough to