Data Scientist

What is day-to-day life like as a Data Scientist, what are the main responsibilities, and what skills do you need to excel?

We chatted to Avnish Hirani, who is a Data Scientist at M&C Saatchi, to find out what day to day life is like in his role

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Role Profile

Key responsibilities

- Work closely with different departments in your organisation to find issues and use data to suggest solutions for effective decision making

- Use your knowledge of computer science and applications, analytics and maths to solve problems

- Extracting data from multiple sources for insights

- Use strong business judgement, perform statistcal analysis, and mine vast amounts of data for useful insights

- Use these insights to influence how an organisation can approach business challenges differently

- Creating algorithms and designing experiments to supply tailored reports to other departments, customers or the wider organisation

- Analyse data from different angles, searching for notable trends that highlight problems or an opportunity

- Communicate important information and insights to business and IT leaders

- Make recommendations in order to adapt and improve business strategies

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Requirements

If you are to be successful as a Data Scientist, you must have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills in order to suggest solutions to problems swiftly

Have a good understanding of database interrogation and analysis tools

Excellent communication and presentation skills in order explain your findings to people who don't understand the mechanics behind data analysis

Effective listening skills in order to understand company values and goals

Be resilient to try new ideas if you face hurdles, you'll be expected to work with little to no supervision, so it's important that you're able to motivate yourself

Good planning, time management and organisational skills

Be able to deliver under time pressured conditions and meet tight deadlines consistently

Great teamwork skills and a collaborative approach to sharing ideas and finding solutions

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