How to become a Data Scientist
Analytics industry is in currently under massive transformation phase. To keep up with the ever-changing needs of the kind of problems at hand, the toolkit of today’s data scientist must be equipped with cutting edge tools. One such tool, SAS , was once the swiss-knife of a Data Scientist but its inability to transform as per the modern day requirements and prohibitive pricing killed its relevance gradually and gave away its dominance to futuristic tools like Python and R . This brief article highlights some important tools that are looked upon with high reverence in today’s analytics industry. Python: This language has been the choice of programmers for a very long time and because of its flexibility to adapt to any kind of requirement just kept increasing its importance. Be it web programming, database management, application development, Python had its role in all the fields of Software engineering. And then with the addition of analytical pack...