all right so in today's video I'm going to talk about data science what is data science
so let's get right into it this is one of the most popular topics in my dms or the question is
i want to become a data scientist how do i do that so the first thing you need to
do is understand what is data science data science is an umbrella term that encompasses
many many job families underneath it so just understanding that part of it
if you have got that down you're golden now when you're talking about like you want to become
a data scientist or you want to get into data science the first thing you need to do is figure
out what kind of data scientists or what kind of what what job family in the data science do you
want to pursue so i'm just going to list a few of them that is a machine learning engineer that is
applied scientist a business analyst data analyst kind of kind of mixed into that data engineering
data scientist generalist product analyst um and there are many other job families that fall
under these so first thing you need to figure out this venn diagram you will see there is machine
learning domain machine learning statistics and math domain then there is computer knowledge and
all the computer understanding the programming the core programming principle understanding
and then at the bottom you will see the business understanding of it so and then
in the middle a data scientist generalist so for a data scientist generalist the reason they fit
in the middle is because they're supposed to know all of these areas so you need to figure out which
side of the spectrum on this venn diagram do you want to be do you want to be in the middle
do you want to be a little bit more toward the right side for toward the machine learning junior
do you want to be a little bit more toward the computer science which is more applied
uh scientist or do you want to be more toward the bottom which is more
data analysts or business analysts so you need to figure out first of all where your niche is where
do you want to pursue your career and then you decide what role do you want to pursue
now that being said one more thing i would like to add here is that the data science job family is
not standardized it's not as standardized as you would think of like a software development role
or a product management role so one of the issues that you will most likely face is that the job
description for a data scientist or requirement do not match from company to company because
each company has their own definition of what a data scientist is so you need to do the homework
and kind of like try to understand what it actually means um for example if you have
a dream company let's say if you're trying to apply it to facebook so for facebook you need to
figure out what does their data scientist look like because i can assure you a data scientist
at facebook does not equal to a data scientist at amazon so you need to do your homework you
need to first of all understand which niche you want to pursue then you need to understand which
company you want to pursue and then you need to like look at their job families and their open
roles and the job requirements and then you need to try to figure out like where do you fit in and
what is your path toward getting to where you want to be all right so i wanted to keep it short i'm
linking some additional reading resources below so make sure to go read them i have also written very
very detailed blog on data science like what is data science and data science it's a generalist um
is also one of the blogs that i have written i've also written like interviewing as a data scientist
again i was a data scientist at amazon so my data science role was more of like a generalist
role which encompassed everything so most of the blocks that i've written are from the lens of that
so if you are into more like data scientist generals i think you
you should definitely go and read them so i hope this video was useful make sure to let
me know in the comments and give it a thumbs up and i'll see you in the next video bye