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Myth about Data Science - A must know for all Data Science enthusiast


1. Only Coder /Programmer can only become a Data Science

No, its not correct. People who is having Basic Programming skills like Python/R or atleast who can learn basic programming can come in to this field.Here i wanted to suggest people who is having Engineering background /Software they can choose Python as a programming and The person who wanted to transit their career in to data science field but coming from non Engineering background like Arts,Commerce,Science they can prefer R as a Programming language . Here am not saying for non technical background can not learn python , its bit difficult to understand the basic and algorithm but if they are ready to learn no issues, they can take any of these either Python or R., I have Mentioned while choosing any of these which one is good according to me in another article i.e python, you can refer my article to get better understanding.

2. Data Scientist are master of all technology .

No, fact is that you should have knowledge on basic data science skills , you dont required to be expertise. A famous line " Jack of all trades " we should have knowledge or basic idea about terminology , algorithm how to apply on the data , basic statistical skill , no one would master in this Era, specially when technology is keep on growing. So i can say you must familiar about the terminilogy and logic and their uses and main thing how to apply these in our data.

3. Data Science is all about tools and technology.

No , its not . Data science is not just about tools and technology, because just applying some lines of code and executing the algorithm and getting the good accuracy is not data science, you should know how to interpret the algoithm and understanding the algorithm /Choosing the algoirthm which is best for the particular problems which is correct or not.

4. Data Analyst and Data Science both works same:


“A data scientist is someone who can predict the future based on past patterns whereas a data analyst is someone who merely curates meaningful insights from data.”

“A data scientist job roles involves estimating the unknown whilst a data analyst job roles involves looking at the known from new perspectives.”

“A data scientist is expected to generate their own questions while a data analyst finds answers to a given set of questions from data.”

“A data analyst addresses business problems but a data scientist not just addresses business problems but picks up those problems that will have the most business value once solved.”

“Data analysts are the one who do the day-to-day analysis stuff but data scientists have the what ifs.”

This is what Abraham Cabangbang, Senior Data Scientist at LinkedIn commented on the difference between data analyst and data scientist -

“It’s definitely a gray area. At my previous company I did both analyst and Data scientist jobs and as an analyst we were more customer facing; the tasks we did were directly related to the tangible business needs—what the customers wanted/requested. It was very directed. The scientist role is a little more free form. The first thing I did as a data scientist is work on building out internal dashboards, basically surfacing information that we were tracking on the back end, but weren’t being used by the data analysts for any reasons; for example, we might have lacked the infrastructure to display it, or the data was just not very well processed. It really wasn’t anything tailored out from a customer need, but came from what I noticed the analyst team needed in order to do their job.”.
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