Defining and Differentiating the Role of the Data Scientist

From Gartner...

The research note, Emerging Role of the Data Scientist and the Art of Data Science, I authored with colleague Lisa Kart just hit the Gartner wires this week. Since most of the data scientist role dissenters we come across seem to believe that the role’s title is is nothing more than a pretentious moniker for a statistician or business intelligence (BI) analyst, we decided to take an…er…scientific approach to making that determination.

http://blogs.gartner.com/doug-laney/defining-and-differentiating-the-role-of-the-data-scientist/

I agree, a data scientist is neither a statistician nor BI analyst (in fact, I think the BI analyst part is pretty far from the role). I've known a few people who, over the years, were data scientists. They tackled big data, big visualization, big mining, big computation, big complex problems -- and way off the charts from mainstream understanding of business intelligence.

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Visualizing (one of my new favorites)

Many years ago, my interest in information visualization was sparked by my hometown newspaper editor. He challenged me as a parttime typesetter to come up with graphics to enhance stories — “like USA Today, but better.” My career took me through data visualization, new media, and now back to information design — not as a career choice but as tool to represent complex processes.

In the last couple of years, information design has exploded onto the scene and visualizing.org is one of my favorites to check out for inspiration.

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