How do I become a data scientist as an undergrad?

Question

I am a 4th year student. How should I prepare so that I get a data science job after graduation?

Answer 1

You need to get yourself familiar with the following technologies:

Mathematics: Statistics(frequentist & bayesian approach), linear algebra, and probability. 

Machine Learning: Have the programming knowledge to perform data visualization, data collection, and heavy data analysis. 

Analysis tools: Python, SAS, R, SPSS, and Julia, etc. 

Business knowledge: you know how to propose a solution that will solve the business problem and good analyzing skills to understand the needs of the business in a better way. 

You can start with maths, learn machine learning concepts, algorithms. Then you can implement what you’ve learned with a programming language. You could also take up projects from websites like Kaggle. 

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