BigDataFr recommends: How to think like a data scientist
Identifying the essential skills for data scientists.

Data science is about finding signals buried in the noise. It’s tough to do, but there is a certain way of thinking about it that I’ve found useful. Essentially, it comes down to finding practical methods of induction, where I can infer general principles from observations, and then reason about the credibility of those principles.

Induction is the go-to method of reasoning when you don’t have all of the information. It takes you from observations to hypotheses to the credibility of each hypothesis. In practice, you start with a hypothesis and collect data you think can give you answers. […]

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By Jerry Overton
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