D I S C U S S I O N O N D ATA S C I E N C E

Conducted by:
Varun Madishetty (on 16.10 at 10:00 CEST)
CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Roles in Data Science field

• Role performances and their prerequisites 2

• Job opportunities (Tips)

• Q&A

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CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Roles in Data Science field

• Role performances and their prerequisites 3

• Job opportunities (Tips)

• Q&A

Varun Madishetty
INTRODUCTION

• Any information stored in a digital format (excel, csv, etc.), can be used for performing an analyses
and decision making
• Large amount of data is referred as a big data (could be structured, semi-structured or unstructured)
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• Once the data is gathered and organized, it uses to create reports and dashboards for gaining
business insights
• Further advanced statistical methods are applied for predictive analytics
• Optimizing their business approaches and gaining their market development

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• Data Science involves following activities:

• Business Understanding – Objectives
• Data Mining and Data Cleansing – Gather and fix the inconsistencies in the data
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• Data Exploration – Analysing the data
• Feature Engineering – Selecting important features
• Predictive Modelling – Train ML models and evaluate the performance
• Data Visualization – Build interactive visualization plots

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CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Roles in Data Science field

• Role performances and their prerequisites 6

• Job opportunities (Tips)

• Q&A

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RO L E S I N D ATA S C I E N C E F I E L D

• Data / Big Data Engineer

• Database Administrator

• Data Analyst 7

• Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst

• Data Scientist

• ML / AI Engineer

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• Introduction
• Roles in Data Science field

• Role performances and their prerequisites 8

• Job opportunities (Tips)

• Q&A

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RO L E P E R FO R M A N C E S ( D ATA / B I G D ATA E N G I N E E R )

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Creates data pipelines, big data platforms and data integrations

• Deals with databases, data warehouses (DWH) and data lakes 9

• Works with various cloud (like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud) and on-premises technologies
Technical Skills:

• Data and web service integration, ETL

• Databases knowledge, SQL
• Distributed Computing

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P R E R E Q U I S I T E S ( D ATA / B I G D ATA E N G I N E E R )

Programming Languages:

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Software Tools:

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RO L E P E R FO R M A N C E S ( D ATA BA S E A D M I N I ST R ATO R )

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manages database systems

• Ensures about the availability, performance and cost 12

• Data secured properly and backed up

Technical Skills:

• SQL
• Database performance tuning

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R O L E P E R F O R M A N C E S ( D ATA A N A LY S T )

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Extracting and exploring the patterns of raw data

• Gathering and cleansing the data sets and further applying statistical methods 14

• Forecasts and highlight trends from business information for end users
Technical Skills:

• SQL, Python knowledge

• ETL analysis (pre-processing data)
• Business Knowledge, Communication

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P R E R E Q U I S I T E S ( D ATA A N A LY S T )

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R O L E P E R F O R M A N C E S ( B I A N A LY S T )

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Process of analysing past data and reporting historical trends

• BI is the preliminary step for predictive analytics 16

• Make decisions by extracting insights of a business data

Technical Skills:

• SQL knowledge
• ETL analysis
• Data Visualization

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P R E R E Q U I S I T E S ( B I A N A LY S T )

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Software Tools:

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RO L E P E R FO R M A N C E S ( D ATA S C I E N T I ST )

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Gathers and analyses data from database and other sources

• Application of advanced statistical methods (like data exploration and feature engineering) 18

• Building traditional methods for predictive analysis and data viz for business users
Technical Skills:

• Math, Statistics, SQL, Python/R

• ETL Analysis and Data Visualization
• Regression and Clustering models

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Regression Clustering

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ROLE PERFORMANCES (ML/AI ENGINEER)

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Creating and implementing algorithms that let machines receive data and use it

• Build model in order to make predictions, analyse patterns and give recommendations 21

• Fraud Detections, Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), Voice Recognition or Autonomous Driving Systems
Technical Skills:

• Deep learning and Statistical ML

• SQL, Python/R
• Expertise in ML methods / NLP / Image or Speech recognition

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ROLE PERFORMANCES (ML/AI ENGINEER)

Anomaly/Fraud Detection Vehicle Route Optimization Autonomous Driving

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PREREQUISITES (ML/AI ENGINEER)

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• Introduction
• Roles in Data Science field

• Role performances and their prerequisites 24

• Job opportunities (Tips)

• Q&A

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JOB OPPORTUNITIES (TIPS)

• Improve skills and knowledge through the relevant certifications

• Update CV by filling your time gaps with additional skills

• Always be active and update your profile in social networks (LinkedIn, Xing) 25

• Check frequently on job sites (like Stepstone, Indeed, Glassdoor etc.)

• Concentrate on the keywords that they’re looking for a job position and target them

• Be patience (everyone gets their chance to prove themselves)

• Never ever compare with anyone (it can loose your confidence)

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Thank you so much for your attention 26

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CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Roles in Data Science field

• Role performances and their prerequisites 27

• Job opportunities (Tips)

• Q&A

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