You just know I have to look-up what the heck is a
data scientist :facepalm: and why no college degree :sheesh: so here goes:
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Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
Who Are These People?
If capitalizing on big data depends on hiring scarce data scientists, then the challenge for managers is to learn how to identify that talent, attract it to an enterprise, and make it productive. None of those tasks is as straightforward as it is with other, established organizational roles. Start with the fact that
there are no university programs offering degrees in data science. There is also little consensus on where the role fits in an organization, how data scientists can add the most value, and how their performance should be measured...
What kind of person does all this? What abilities make a data scientist successful?
Think of him or her as a hybrid of data hacker, analyst, communicator, and trusted adviser. The combination is extremely powerfuland rare.
Data scientists most basic, universal skill is the ability to write code. ...
https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century/
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How do I become a data scientist?
"..Complete Harvard's Data Science Course
This course is developed in part by a fellow Quora user, Professor Joe Blitzstein...
FORMAL WAY
For a more formal way of becoming a data scientist one can look into this post (reproduced below)- How to acquire the "Essential Skill Set"?- the Formal way.
The Essential Skill Set are the basic fundamental skills which every data scientist is expected to know. Traditionally, these can be acquired by undertaking a computer science degree or a statistics degree from an institution...."
Being data scientist requires a solid foundation typically in computer science and applications, modeling, statistics, analytics and math....
A Data Scientist is an hybrid between a statistician and a programmer.
He isn't a professional statistician since he won't publish major scientific contributions (and if he does, he is among the rare ones).
Neither is he a programmer since he haven't received the proper training and haven't yet coded as much as a computer science graduate.
He is however a hacker in the sense that he can search for what is needed to perform some tasks (using the internet, forums, books and sometimes intuition)
He is also superior to a statistician in the sense that he can code (not only in a scientifically way but rather in a professional, real-world setting). He also outperforms a basic computer programmer since he knows how to analyze data, display visualizations, interpret and deliver results....
Alas, all of this greatness comes at a price.
There isn't any formal education to become a Data Scientist. You have to either major in applied mathematics or computer science (or any other scientifically oriented major) and then pick up the missing skills by yourself via e-learning, books, forums, meet-ups...
http://www.quora.com/How-do-I-become-a-data-scientist
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This article has answers from different people:
Is it necessary to have Masters Degree to become a Data Scientist? Or are there any certificate courses that can help me to become a Data Scientist?
To learn data science -- absolutely. A few schools are building undergraduate programs that will be akin to a computer science degree. You will learn core skills, but they won't make you a scientist who will be advancing the field...
Remember that Data Scientist is just a Title. (A media hyped title) Some give themselves or have this title because that's the work they do, not because they have a particular degree. Some may hold degrees in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, the disciplines vary.
You can learn data science anywhere. No single Masters Program could cover all the disciplines needed in significant depth for one to be an expert in all these areas. Selecting an area or two or three and having depth and expertise in those is common. Many companies do not have just a "Data Scientist" but teams comprised of experts from the different disciplines.
While some institutions are offering or creating Masters Programs with this title, most of the current field of Data Scientist have no such Degree.
Data Scientist is just a title. A good Masters to get you in the arena is Operations Research...
http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/06/masters-degree-become-data-scientist.html
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So- I think this Mr. Smith is ligit about what he knows, even without a degree. He must have some computer science, statistic, math, :blah::blah: background, IMO.
He's just analyzing the data that was found on the computer and reporting what he found, IMO. He's not making a judgement call here, but when he said "the victim",IMO, he knows very well that
Travis was murdered by missy:jail:.
I'm still unclear how the viruses,




originally appeared on the computer and when?
Anyone know? I may have missed that info.
I wonder what missy:jail: said in the "secret witness" testimony?
One more thing- I just know missy:jail: put that




/virus on the computer- just intuition here.