AN ULTIMATE GUIDE TO

ADVANCING YOUR CAREER

WITH ESSENTIAL
DATA SCIENCE SKILLS
 Seven Critical Data Science Skills You Need to Succeed
An understanding of the Data Analysis cycle
Programming Languages
Data Cleaning and Manipulation
Statistics
Data Visualization
Basic Machine Learning
Communication and Team Skills

Four Ways to Develop Data Science Skills

Earn a degree
Learn on-the-job
Teach yourself

Table of Earn a professional data science certification

How to Advance Your Career with Data Science Skills

Contents Develop a business understanding
Make a plan
Build your portfolio
Grow your network
Take Initiative
Advocate for yourself

How to Prepare for the Data Science Interview

The Interview: What to Expect
Bolster Your Resume and Cover Letter

Investing in Yourself and Your Career

About DASCA
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 No matter your vocation, data science skills can help you be more impactful in your industry and competitive in the job market.
You can enhance your data science knowledge if you are:

An engineer A statistician A creative An industry specialist A college graduate

You can specialize in You can learn to You can gain You can use data You can embark on
machine learning and translate structured and knowledge of data insights to deliver the journey in data
data engineering to unstructured data into analysis and be the more impactful and science to strengthen
make business processes actionable insights with navigators between evidence-backed your field of inquiry
more efficient and move advanced modeling, technical and business results in your trade or chart a career path
up the ladder in your algorithms, and applied aspects specializing in data
organization math science

Broadly speaking, a foundation in data science can help you position yourself for success in any sector with skills such as data
visualization, evidence-backed problem-solving, complex decision making, and programming. Data Science, essentially, gives you a
confluence of skillsets and understanding that can be replicated and reproduced in a variety of job roles.

In this guide, our attempt is to go beyond the laundry list and cover the fundamentals of data science skills that you need to thrive in
the fields. We also provide a blueprint for developing those competencies and putting them into practice to advance your career.

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SEVEN CRITICAL
DATA SCIENCE SKILLS
YOU NEED TO SUCCEED
Before diving into how you can broaden your data science
acumen, here’s a look at seven skills you should cultivate to gain
a foothold in data science and take your career to the next level.
 1.An understanding of the Data Analysis cycle PRO TIP
A baseline knowledge of how data transforms from a
question to insights is critical for all and a strong grasp of Skills That Combine to Make Data Science
it will give you a kickstart in leveraging the discipline.
A noted American Data Scientist, Drew Conway,
identified three skillsets that combine to give
Regardless of your industry, here’s how a modern data
life to data science. They are mathematics and
analysis cycle will look like. The figure below represents
statistical knowledge; hacking or coding skills;
the process from forming a problem statement or a
and domain expertise. Subject Matter Expertise

question to obtaining an answer with data. The left and Decision

Math & Statistics
Science Machine Learning
right sides show the different skills required at each step.
Conway says data science lies at the intersection Hacking or Coding

of these three. Here's a triangular Analytics

As you gain a theoretical understanding of the process, representation of the same given by Nolis and
check your practical understanding by reading case Robinson.
studies and spotting these stages in real-world data
problems. You may have each skill to a certain degree, and based on your level of expertise in
these, you can specialize accordingly. You can be:

A Developer An Analyst A Data Scientist

If you have strong If you have strong skills in If you have expertise in
programming & coding statistics, above-average statistics, programming,
skills, an average domain domain expertise, but are as well as a strong
understanding, but little to still developing coding domain understanding
no experience in statistics skills

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 2.Programming Languages
Practical and functional programming ability is a must-have for all data science PRO TIP
professionals. That said, the proficiency demanded can vary by companies and the job
roles. Irrespectively, you shouldn’t shield yourself from the prospects of writing codes.
What makes Python, R, and SQL special?
If you are aiming to become a Big Data engineer, developer, or programmer, you will Python, SQL, and R are becoming the three must-have programming
be expected to be skilled in multiple languages. For you, shifting gears between two languages of data science. It is so because:
languages on the same day will be common. In case of other data science
professionals, to the least, you must be skilled in basic programming languages. SQL is a mature language that is widely used for making a query
and requesting information from the database, regardless of the
Python, R, and SQL are the most popular languages for data science. programming language you choose.

According to research, the combination of Python and SQL is among the highly R is a flexible, state-of-the-art platform that is specifically
demanded technical skills. designed for statistical computing.

Once you pick a language, you should become familiar with the key libraries that will Python has become the lingua franca of data science, capable of
supplement your knowledge of programming and make your life easier. Libraries give performing many data analysis operations earlier done in R, and
you access to pre-written functions and allow you to perform basic data tasks with only has a lot of supporting libraries.
a couple of line codes. Some of the most common data-focused libraries in Python
include NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, and scikit-learn. In R, you can benefit from
cultivating skills in tidyverse and stringr.
PYTHON AND R
ARE THE TOP CHOICES OF
Julia, JAVA, and MATLAB are some other languages companies work with, although
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES Are free and Have many Have a large
most now are moving to R and Python due to their universality. You can read more
BECAUSE THEY: open source data-focused community of
about programming languages used in data science here. libraries data scientists

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 3.Data Cleaning and Manipulation
The data typically received is not ready for modeling. It isn’t in the neat and tidy,
2D row and column format that data analysts and scientists work with. It comes in
huge volume and is usually stored in a database (physical or cloud). It may be
structured in a text document or may not have any structure at all. This data must
be made ready to meet the conditions necessary for statistical inference and
modeling. This process is known as data cleaning.

About 80% of the time of data science professionals goes into preparing their
data for processing, 9 which makes data cleaning and manipulation a
quintessential skill for anyone working with data.

Python libraries and MS Excel are some of the tools used for this purpose. Some
of the techniques employed in the process include missing value manipulation,
correcting data types, database querying, HTML parsing, and scaling.

To really know your data, you must make friends with people with
domain knowledge. When I was doing financial reports, I made
friends with the finance people so I could learn the conventions
accounting has such as how they name things and the order of how
things are subtracted.
Randy Au
Quantitative User Experience Researcher, Google

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 4.Statistics
Data science embodies the modern era of statistics. Fundamentally speaking, data
science professionals are high-end statisticians using coding and machine learning
models that statisticians in the olden times could only dream of. However, underneath it
all, it’s all about statistics.

A foundation in math and statistics is very important for data science professionals. You
need not be an expert in mathematics, but you must have a strong grounding in
probability theory, linear algebra, and statistics. The concepts of calculus and
computational theory can be particularly valuable if you are working toward higher-
level job roles.
Better explore and
understand your data
Identify the underlying
relationships or dependencies

SKILLS
IN STATISTICS
WILL ENABLE
YOU TO:
Predict future trends
based on the past

Determine data
patterns or motives
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Uncover anomalies
 5.Data Visualization
Visualization is a skill used at all stages: data processing, pre-
PRO TIP
processing, analytics, modeling, and presentation. A good data
visualization translates complex data into understandable Know Your Data Science Tools
chunks that can be understood by non-technical business users A high-level view of core technologies you will need to know in data science:
as well. A few of the popular data visualization techniques are
shown below.
Common Data Visualization Techniques
Database Tools: Framework Technologies:
Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) Hadoop Framework is used for easy organization,
organize and store data into logical tables, so it can accessibility, & analysis of Big Data. Hadoop Distributed
be called upon for analysis. SQL is the standard File System gives high-speed processing with
language used to access this data. IBM Db2 and MapReduce programming model.
MySQL are some of the major RDBMS vendors.
Hive allows programmers versed with SQL to work with
Scatter Plot Histograms NoSQL constitutes database systems used for new languages in Hadoop with easy translation of SQL-
storing unstructured data with as much flexibility type calls into Hadoop-speak.
and scalability as RDBMS. MongoDB is one of the
leading NoSQL databases. Others include Apache Spark is also built on Hadoop Distributed File System
HBase and Cassandra. and helps in accessing NoSQL database inputs.

Boxplots Heatmaps
Analytics and Intelligence Tools: Visualization Tools:
Data analysts are expected to be highly proficient in this art as
the real value of data is only understood when information is RapidMiner, QlikView, SAP, SPSS and Tableau Google Data Studio, Tableau, and Exhibit
are a few analytics tools used to connect to the Visualize are some of the visualization tools
rightly communicated. You will need to know how to use data stores for analysis and interpretation. used to chart data into a digestible and
analytics and intelligence tools in addition to the visualization interactive information map for stakeholders.
tools and should know how to work with SQL. You can read more
10 about BI and visualization tools here.
 6.Basic Machine Learning
Machine learning as a subset of the data ecosystem is gaining currency as
organizations move toward automation. Machine Learning helps data
professionals identify patterns and build models that make decisions with minimal
human intervention. It’s primarily used for predictive analytics.

You need not know everything in the domain. To get started, develop a solid grasp
on popular algorithms such as linear and logistic regressions, k-nearest neighbors
(KNN), k-means, Naïve Bayes, Principle Component Analysis (PCA) and random
forest. They may sound overwhelming but are in fact quite approachable.
Furthermore, as per a job role, you may need to specialize in an area, for instance,
Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms.

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 7.Communication and Team Skills
Whether you are starting in your professional journey or are a senior-level pro, it
always pays to be good at communication and collaboration. Multiple researches
have dubbed team skills emerged as one of the top demanded skills in data
science jobs.

Hone your skills in business communication, team working, and cross-functional

team collaboration to secure a place at the decision-making table in your
organization. Team skills are pertinent irrespective of the data specialization you
choose.

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FOUR WAYS
TO DEVELOP
DATA SCIENCE SKILLS
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to developing data science skills. A
senior professional returning to Data Science will be in a much different
situation than an entry-level job seeker.

The path you choose will be dependent on your personal and professional
circumstances. Here are four ways you should consider as you plot your
data science career trajectory.
 1.Earn a degree in data science or related field
If you are interested in furthering your education, a data science degree may be
the right move for you. A graduate-level technical degree in the related fields such
as mathematics, statistics, and computer science may also help in imparting
essential data science skills. If you are an undergrad, you can opt for a major in the
aforementioned subjects.

The good thing about degrees is they are exhaustive. Given the length of the
program, you’ll get experience in using statistics, ML methods, and programming
languages (depending on your specialization). That said, a degree can be a huge
time and monetary investment for some, in which case a good option is to go for
online and short courses.

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 2.Learn on-the-job PRO TIP
Another very effective, but unusual way of learning data
science is to take up a data science task on the job. Maybe Taking Up Online Courses and Bootcamps
you are an engineer, a journalist, a marketing professional, Both online courses and bootcamps provide a quicker and shorter route to new
or a businessperson looking to add a data science spin to skills.
your job. Just go for it.
If you’re wondering if you should take an online class or attend bootcamp,
You can proactively ask to be put on data-centric projects here’s what you must consider.
and start adding your newfound data science knowledge to
your job. For instance, if you did small amount of Online courses:
programming in your undergrad years and you are working Suit self-driven individuals.
in marketing, you could study your surveys using GUI. Offer flexible and convenient learning.
Require time management.
Similarly, if you are a new professional, you can find a data
science or data-science-adjacent job that will help you learn Bootcamps:
and gain hands-on training as you earn. Are intensive 8 to 15-week courses, which can be conducted online or offline.
Provide an opportunity to work with industry experts.
Give hands-on project working experience.

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 3.Teach yourself through online courses, PRO TIP
blogs, and books
As disruption and innovation drive change in data science, lifelong Which certification is best for data science?
learning becomes pertinent for its practitioners. Stay up to date with
the latest news and trends in data science and keep learning. It’s a question many data science aspirants face as they seek to shore up their skills and
advance in career.
You can teach yourself the basics as well as gain in-depth
knowledge of tech skills through a self-learning medium that’s First of all, you should understand the utility of certification in data science. A professional
suited to your needs. There are courses, blogs, books, videos, certification confirms your proficiency and promise to work with data science tools and
tutorials, journals, and Stack Overflow answers that can provide you technologies.
required grounding to teach data science to yourself.
Individuals learning by themselves and experienced professionals looking to climb the
A few must-read resources for data science aspirants and career ladder can benefit from earning these global credentials. Here are the three different
professionals are: data science profession tracks offered by DASCA that you can consider for certification.

Data Science MOOCs on edX, Coursera, DataCamp, and

Udemy
Maths and Statistics by Khan Academy
Python Machine Learning by Sebastian Raschka (Book)
Applied Predictive Modeling by Kuhn & Johnson (Book) Big Data Analyst: Big Data Engineer: Data Scientist:
Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Associate and Senior level Associate and Senior level Senior Data Scientist
Techniques by Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank, and Mark A. Hall certification for business certification for developers Certification for seasoned
(Book) users and researchers and programmers looking technologists and analytics
Linear Algebra by Glibert Strang (YouTube) handling data analytics for a reliable differentiator. professionals seeking to
Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science functions. slip into higher-impact
by John Guttag and Eric Grimson (YouTube) data science roles.
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 4.Earn a professional data science certification
As you self-learn and teach yourself, you should get your knowledge validated
by a third-party assessment authority who can certify your skills as a data
science professional.

The demand-supply gap is huge in the data science industry, and for
professionals with the right skills, qualifications, training, and experience,
landing a desired data science job is easier than others. By earning a
professional certification in data science, as offered by the Data Science Council
of America (DASCA), you will have strong credibility in the job market. A data
science certification will give wings to your self-learned skills and personal
experience by recognizing them professionally.

Holding a professional certification proves to the employers that you have the
skills and training in requisite data science tools and technologies to perform
efficiently on the job.

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HOW TO ADVANCE
YOUR CAREER
WITH DATA SCIENCE SKILLS
Now that you know how and why you should develop data science acumen, it’s
important to know how you can put your acquired knowledge into practice. Here,
you will learn how you can boost your career by deepening your business
understanding, making a plan, and building a portfolio, among other key steps.
 PRO TIP
1.Develop a business understanding
Businesses have little understanding of how data science Know what level you are on
works. Managements usually turn to their data unicorns to As you grow your skills and reach professional maturity, you’ll need to transition from the
make something happen. In such a scenario, you can’t afford junior position. It can, however, be difficult to understand that it’s time.
to not understand your business. Developing business
understanding rather becomes critical to advancing your Here is a guide to what’s expected from different levels of data professionals. Assess yourself
career. and keep in mind your career plan as you track your skills matrix.

Increasing your industry knowledge and keeping a track of

your market competitors can lay a stable business
foundation for data science professionals. Manager Technical Leads Senior Data Scientists
is what most people are tech decision mentors have their data science tasks at
Make it a habit to read the room and tailor your imagine when they think who help data teams out of hand but are also skilled at
presentations for different audiences – statisticians, or career growth. They lead technical troubles. troubleshooting others’
management, or engineers. The trick is to inform your teams, are involved in problems.
audience without overcomplicating matters. Be on the hiring, set strategies, and
mentor people.
lookout for business areas that can benefit from automation.
Cultivate a knack for translating a business situation into a
data question. It’s all about mastering the understanding of
the internal as well as external business environments. Principal Data Scientists Independent consultants
are those who master the field of data are those who have enough
science. Companies usually rely on them skills and a huge network that
to spearhead data science projects. benefits from their data advice.

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 2.Make a plan
Advancing your career also needs conscious planning. Know what your
professional goals are – both in the short- and long-term.

Map out your career trajectory and your ambitions. Determine the “from(s)
and to(s)” of your journey, which are statements describing where you are
today and where do you intend to be.

Say, you are a junior data analyst in the finance industry but want to move up
to become the senior data analyst or team lead. With your desired goal in
mind, you can chart your course from here to there, which in this instance
means further deepening your knowledge of analytics and programming to
take up senior-level responsibilities. Recharge next phase of your professional
journey with a plan and identify the corresponding data science skills you
need to reach there.

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 3.Build your portfolio PRO TIP
The degrees and qualifications work very well but building your
portfolio will help you stand out and establish yourself as a full-
How to get started with a data science portfolio?
blown data science professional.
You require two things to start with a data science project: an interesting problem and a
A portfolio is a collection of your data science projects that you dataset.
can show to employers. You can write and upload your projects
on open-source hosting portals, the most prominent of which is A problem can lead you to the required dataset or vice-versa. Either way, take up a project
GitHub. that interests you. Here are a few sources you can check out to find a dataset or a question.

A strong portfolio has two major parts: GitHub repositories It has thousands of datasets with associated questions. Many companies post their
(repos) and a blog. The project code is uploaded on GitHub problems here for data science professionals to solve.
(your repo), and since it’s impossible for people to always read
Application programming interfaces are like URLs, which give you direct
through thousand lines of code, i.e. your repo, determined
access to companies’ data.
aspirants maintain a blog that gives a quick explanation of
what they did and why. Your goal must be to have a good
You can avail data like census, social survey, and employment from
collection of self-developed big data applications. government websites.

This is not to say that you can’t land a job without a portfolio,
but most successful data science professionals maintain GitHub It’s a great way to extract data from websites that don’t have API.
repos and blogs. Qualifications establish your credibility, and
your portfolio speaks volumes about your work. Your physical activity, reading list, budget, and sleep cycle can also be used as a dataset.
You can try to develop, say a personal chatbot, with it.

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 A quick stepwise representation of creating a data science project for your portfolio.

Data set Question Blog post

Start with an interesting data set and find a Write a blog about what you did
question to answer. and didn't find out.

Analysis

Try to answer the question

with the data, saving
everything on the way.

Question Data set GitHub

Find with a question you have and find a Store a code publicly with
data related to it. documentation.

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 4.Grow your network
Networking is indispensable for all professionals. A robust professional network can
help you reach unreachable places and job positions. Getting referrals from your
network is one of the biggest benefits of networking. It’s a great way to prevent your
CV from ending up in a pile of hundreds, even thousands of cold applications.

How do you find people who can recommend you? You can start from your LinkedIn
profile. Look through the companies your network work at. Even if you haven’t spoken
to someone in a while, you can reach out with a polite message.

Your professional network is your social value that grows with every job position and
place you associate yourself with. It can be a great source of inspiration for new
knowledge as well as career paths you never even considered.

You need to demonstrate that you can do this job. It’s (data
science) still a young-enough field and people aren’t sure what it
means to be a data scientist and who can be one. Some ways
people demonstrate that is by doing a job through open source
contributions, speaking at local meetups on projects they’ve done,
and developing a portfolio of projects on a blog or GitHub profile.

Julia Silge
Data scientist and software engineer, RStudio

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 5.Take Initiative
Taking initiative and being a self-starter can reap huge dividends for your data
science career. It’s a new field and many aren’t yet fully aware of the benefits it can
bring them. Take the lead in informing your peers and management about the
projects they can take up.

According to research, high performers are often the ones who take initiative. It
will give you a taste of how it’s like to lead in your current company and place you
well for a promotion. To get started, you can lead a team meeting or help your
company successfully implement a data science project.

6.Advocate for yourself

As you grow in your career and uncover new opportunities, you must become your
own best advocate. This can be hard for people to understand. Don’t shy away
from listing your contributions in your department and workplace.

You know your abilities the best. So, do yourself a favor by letting others know
about any educational, training, or certification edge that you have over others.
Take up higher-level responsibilities and prove your mettle in the projects. It will
position you for success within your organization and show that you are motivated
and committed to your development.

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HOW TO PREPARE
FOR THE
DATA SCIENCE INTERVIEW
Now that you know how and why you should develop data science acumen, it’s
important to know how you can put your acquired knowledge into practice. Here, you
will learn how you can boost your career by deepening your business understanding,
making a plan, and building a portfolio, among other key steps.
 1.The Interview: What to Expect JOB SEEKER TIP
Though the interview process varies as per job profile and
companies, take a look at the four common stages of an interview.
How to Crack The “Technical Round” In an Interview?
Stage 1: Initial phone screening Don’t be overwhelmed by the technical round in your data science interview. The point of the
This is a familiarity round where the interviewer wishes to know you. interview is to assess if you have the skills you say you do for the job.
The recruiter or the subject expert will discuss your educational
background, professional experience, and interest in the job. Here are a few things you can do to better convey that you possess the skillsets:

Stage 2: On-site interview/Video conferencing

This stage involves both technical and behavioral rounds.
Technical: The interviewer discusses general questions on Machine
Learning (k-means, regression, random forest, PCA, etc.); Statistics
(statistical tests and definition of ANOVA or p [1]value, etc.); 1.Explain your 2.Reference your 3.Don’t panic if you
probability distribution; databases and programming, and the likes. thought process experiences don’t know the answer
Behavioral: The interviewer assesses your ability as a team player and Instead of a direct dictionary You can bring the It’s possible that you may
efforts to bring projects to fruition. You will be asked business-case- type answer, explain why you conversation around you and not know every question,
type questions. got the answer that you did, and your past work by taking and that’s normal. Be up-
the choices (if any) you took in references to the projects did. front and explain what you
Stage 3: Case study round the process. This is your It will give the interviewer know. Interviewers are wary
This round gives practical evidence of your skills. You may be given a opportunity to show the more confidence in your of those who don’t know
real-world data science problem to solve or analyze. interviewer how you think. It will candidature and talent. That what they don’t know.
help you even if sometimes your said, over reminiscing can be
Stage 4: Final round answer isn’t right. harmful. Make sure you
The purpose of this round is to give final approval of your fit for the answer the question at hand.
position, team, and the company. You will get interviewed by a
senior manager, director, or team lead.
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 2.Bolster Your Resume and Cover Letter
No matter if you’re transitioning from college to a professional arena or aspire to
move up in your current organization, a strong resume is quintessential.

Do you know that most employers spend just about 6 seconds to review a resume,
and make a judgment call on if you should be contacted?

Given that your resume is your first impression on the employer, how do you make
it stand out. Here are a few tips for you:

Always include a cover letter with your resume. It gives the employer a chance
to closely assess your interest and fit for the job in question.
Highlight your skills and describe in brief pointers your roles and responsibilities
at each job. I am a lot more thoughtful about the types of questions I’m being asked
Maintain a well-written, error-free, and up-to-date resume, and keep it during interview. Earlier, being interviewed felt like taking a test because
aesthetically pleasing. the interviewer is asking a question and I thought I only needed to answer
Most importantly, tailor your resume for each job. it right. I wasn’t evaluating the types of questions being asked, which now
I’m a lot more conscious of. Is this interviewer asking me questions that are
Tailoring is important for various reasons: to show your interest in the position and
a lot of trivia? Do they want me to whiteboard a lot of programming
the company, and to include the specific keywords provided in the job description
problems? Do they care about the things I care about in that data science
against which the HRs or software often screening hundreds of resumes.
role?
Your resume will be searched for keywords. This makes tailoring the resume and Ryan Williams
cover letter quite pertinent. The best course of action is to include as many relevant Senior decision scientist at Starbuck
industry terms as possible to make sure your resume shows multiple hits for the
desired keywords.
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INVEST IN YOURSELF
AND YOUR CAREER
A strong portfolio and a powerful professional qualification are the
tools you’ll need in your arsenal to stand out.
 You’ve learned throughout this guide that developing essential data science skills can help you move forward in your data science career. One of the few trends that
flows through it is that with the programming, statistics, and business understanding, you also need to effectively demonstrate your capabilities. Now the question is,
how will you accomplish it?

A strong portfolio and a powerful professional qualification are the tools you’ll need in your arsenal to stand out.

Here are a few reasons that make DASCA certifications an ideal source of professional excellence and growth for ambitious data science professionals.

Quality and Neutrality-Focused Research-Backed A Robust Constant Relevance

Rigor: Specialization: Knowledge: Framework: and Dynamism:
DASCA certifications are an DASCA is the world’s first-of- The source of the DASCA All DASCA certifications are The dynamic knowledge
authoritative proof of its-kind credentialing body edge is the belief–generated hinged on the DASCA Data framework ensures DASCA
knowledge for employers that blends platform out of deep research–that Science Body of Knowledge certifications constantly retain
worldwide that show neutrality and vendor Data Science is a long- (DASCA-DSBoK™) – the most their unflagging relevance,
mastery of the most independence with skill- standing need of the modern authoritative compilation of reliability, and impact across
important data science based specialization that help world and DASCA’s conscious knowledge prerequisites in markets and amidst changes,
tools, technologies, data professionals improve commitment to the Big Data data science that cut through and prepare professionals for
concepts, models, and their employability and grow purpose than to its ever- the clutter of role confusions, wider roles and responsibilities.
methodologies. effectively in the profession. changing technologies. skill needs, and platform focus.

If you want to accelerate your data science career, explore DASCA credentials and discover how you can assure employers about the above-the-cut promise and
potential sought in top-bracket data science professionals.

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 About DASCA
The Data Science Council of America (DASCA) researches, designs,
and builds platform-independent Data Science knowledge
frameworks, standards, and credentials, and certifies individuals
entering or working across the spectrum of emerging Data Science
professions. The prime goal of DASCA is to develop high-quality
professionals who can squarely address the challenging
expectations of Data Science stakeholders internationally.

DASCA offers the world’s most powerful set of credentials along

three critical profession-tracks in data science – Big Data Analytics,
Big Data Engineering, and Data Scientists.

DASCA credentials validate the promise and potential of

professionals to hit the ground running in the most demanding
assignments and roles. DASCA-certified individuals bring to the
table unmatched understanding and capabilities to anticipate and
appreciate the need for deploying the latest Data Science
techniques, tools, and concepts to manage and harness Big Data
across verticals, environments, and markets.

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