Why should you choose a Career as a Data Scientist?

The economy is shifting to analytics and decision-making based on data. Data scientists are at the core of any business’s success or failure.

Data collection and analysis are important because they enable organizations to recognize and act on trends in a particular sector.

Thus, Data Science provides endless opportunities for practice and growth for passionate lifelong learners.

Journey to become a Data Scientist:

Data science requires a strong mathematical and statistical background, patience, and expertise.

A degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Engineering or Computer Science is required. Programming languages like R, Python, SQL, C or Java and strong database design and coding skills are also necessary.

Postgraduate courses in business analytics, big data or data science cover subjects like machine learning, data analytics, statistics, data modelling, business analysis, data visualization, cloud computing, database systems, internet technologies and algorithms.

To work as a data scientist, a bachelor’s degree is required, along with good database design, coding skills, and programming languages.

After graduation, postgraduate courses cover topics such as algorithms, data modelling, and data visualization

Top Institutes providing Data Science courses:

Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata (isical.ac.in) offers courses in statistics.

IIT Kanpur, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Kharagpur, offer B.S. in Mathematics and Scientific Computing.

IIT Roorkee (iitr.ac.in) offers a postgraduate certificate programme in Data Science & Machine Learning.

Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad (isb.edu);

S.P. Jain School of Global Management, Mumbai (spjain.org);

Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai (greatlakes.edu. in) offer courses in Business Analytics.

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune (iiserpune.ac.in) and various other locations offer BS-MS programs.

Pay package

Data scientists usually start with 6-8 lakhs per annum. Their salary can increase steadily over the first 5-10 years if they keep sharpening their skills. Thus it is always better to keep gaining knowledge in advanced programming, data modelling, machine learning and more. Most of the related jobs are in Bengaluru, followed by Gurgaon, Pune, Mumbai and Hyderabad.

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