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Figure 1-2. Rachel's data science profile, which she created to illus‐
trate trying to visualize oneself as a data scientist; she wanted stu‐
dents and guest lecturers to “riff” on this—to add buckets or remove
skills, use a different scale or visualization method, and think about
the drawbacks of self-reporting
We taped the index cards to the blackboard and got to see how every‐
one else thought of themselves. There was quite a bit of variation,
which is cool—lots of people in the class were coming from social
sciences, for example.
Where is your data science profile at the moment, and where would
you like it to be in a few months, or years?
As we mentioned earlier, a data science team works best when different
skills (profiles) are represented across different people, because no‐
body is good at everything. It makes us wonder if it might be more
worthwhile to define a “data science team”—as shown in
Figure 1-3
—
than to define a data scientist.
