Do you feel some of your peers just do better in their data science career for reasons you can’t explain?
With all the interest of industries, venture capitalists, governments and various other functions, data science has expanded to a very wide domain. With this expansion, data scientists’ today need to demonstrate a huge array of skills to excel in the role.
A person would need to be:
The list keeps on getting bigger as the domain expands. This informative image captures this multi-faceted role:
There’s both good news and bad news here.
The Good News is that you can pick up any skill you want if you have the right mindset, the discipline and the determination to practice it daily. The Bad News? Well there are broadly two main challenges aspiring data scientists face:
The second challenge, of a person coming from a non-data science background, is all too common. I have seen people give up halfway to their goal because they feel they won’t ever improve their existing skillset. For instance, a person with no engineering background might feel he/she might never become an awesome data scientist because he might never become good at programming.
Sounds like a familiar situation?
Here are a couple of solutions for these challenges that I will explain with relatable analogies:
Everyone knows Vitamins are essential for our body. If you struggle with any physical/mental illness, do you simply start taking Vitamin pills? No, right? You get your diagnostic tests for various Vitamins and then start the cure.
Similarly, a data scientist needs to master a set of skill elements. To understand which element is impeding his/her growth, the data scientist needs to go through a rigorous diagnostic test on various data science aspects.
Once you identify your knowledge gap, now what? What if the skill you need to master looks unachievable or simply takes too much time that you don’t have?
Turns out that the time to learn a new skill OR improve on an existing one is mainly dependent on our state of mind.
Looks too abstract? Let me illustrate. In your lifetime, when do you think you had the steepest learning curve? Probably you would have guessed right – when you were a toddler. Can you think of a reason? The main reason was the state of mind. At that age, every new lesson was a game. And learning through a game turns out to be the fastest way you can learn any new skill regardless of your age.
We at Analytics Vidhya, combined these concepts and leveraged our expertise in data science to create a new product called Datamin – Your Daily Dose of Data Science. We are now ready to test the waters and launch the Beta version of the product.
Here’s Analytics Vidhya’s Founder and CEO with the launch announcement:
Datamin is a unique data science quizzing platform that has been designed by industry experts. Datamin will:
These quizzes will be a week long with almost no limits on the number of questions you attempt. If this was not enough, every competition ends with prizes worth INR 200,000 (USD 3000).
The questions you will face will test you broadly on three main categories that are most relevant for data scientists:
The beta platform comes with a lot of community engagement levers and modes of giving us LIVE feedback.
DATAMIN goes LIVE at 3 pm IST on 25 July 2019 (Thursday). Wear your data science hat, get your gaming self together and get ready for a super fast learning drive.
Make sure you register as soon as possible to allow yourself maximum time and maximum attempts. Note that there are no limits on the total number of questions you can attempt, so the only way to maximize your score is to maximize your attempts with high accuracy. Best of luck and happy learning!
Tavish Srivastava, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Analytics Vidhya, is an IIT Madras graduate and a passionate data-science professional with 8+ years of diverse experience in markets including the US, India and Singapore, domains including Digital Acquisitions, Customer Servicing and Customer Management, and industry including Retail Banking, Credit Cards and Insurance. He is fascinated by the idea of artificial intelligence inspired by human intelligence and enjoys every discussion, theory or even movie related to this idea.
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The Keep Me Updated link does not seem to work! It is stuck on sibforms.com.
Hi Chirag - Datamin is now LIVE so you can go ahead and start your journey. :) All the best and let us know your experience.
502 ad Gateway. That's the error message the website gives when you try to register. Is it fully functional?
Hi Olaminde, The site is working perfectly fine from our end. Do let me know if you're still facing issues and we will resolve it for you.
I get an error message when trying to register with my US-based cell phone number. Is the contest open only to residents of India?
Hi Maritza, The contest is open for everyone around the world. :) Can you try to input your phone number with a +1 prefix and without any punctuations, brackets, etc.? This should work and you'll be able to register.