Engineering & Technology
Data Scientist
Builds statistical and predictive models to answer complex questions.
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What this career is
Data science combines statistics, programming and domain understanding to model problems that cannot be answered by simple reporting.
- Typical education pathway
- Undergraduate degree in a quantitative field, often with postgraduate study
What professionals typically do
- Frame business problems as measurable questions
- Build and evaluate statistical or predictive models
- Design experiments and validate results
- Communicate uncertainty and limitations honestly
Typical education pathways
- B.Sc./B.E. in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or a related field
- M.Sc./M.Tech in data science, statistics or machine learning
- Research degrees for specialised modelling roles
Important skills
- Statistics
- Programming
- Machine learning
- Experiment design
Suitable student interests
- Mathematics
- Research
- Programming
- Curiosity about causes
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