Data Scientist Skill Set

Data science is first and foremost a talent-based discipline and capability. Platforms, tools and IT infrastructure play an important but secondary role. Nevertheless, software and technology companies around the globe spend significant amounts of money talking business managers into buying or licensing their products which often times results in unsatisfying outcomes that do not come close to realizing the full potential of data science. Talent is key - but unfortunately very rare and hard to identify. If you are trying to hire a data scientist these days you are facing the serious risk of recruiting someone with the wrong or an insufficient skill set. On top of things, talent is even more crucial for small or medium-sized companies whose data science teams are likely to stay relatively small. Wasting one or two head counts on wrong profiles might render an entire team inefficient.