Professional Certification: Level 1 Data Scientist - Experience Profile Milestone
Issued by
The Open Group
Professional Data Scientists work with business leaders to solve problems by understanding, preparing, and analyzing data to predict emerging trends and provide recommendations to optimize business results. They typically have academic training in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, operations research, machine learning, or econometrics, and combine use of data, analytics tools and languages with strong communication, visualization, and storytelling skills. (Open CDS EXP L1).
- Type Experience
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Build Hypotheses
- Characterize Business Problems
- Conflict Resolution
- Construct Usable Data
- Deploy Solutions
- Formulate Research Question
- Identify And Collect Data
- Management Of Risk
- Solution Development
- Tailor Methods
- Translate Insight Into Business Value
- Understanding Of Business
- Use Analytic Techniques
- Use Data Science Collaboration Tools
- Use Data Science Platforms
- Validate Models
Earning Criteria
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Data Scientists achieve this Milestone by submitting a comprehensive package of information describing project and other experiences for review by an experienced Data Scientist. The assessment criteria include all of the Skills mentioned above. At Level 1, Data Scientists must be able to demonstrate these skills at an "applied" level, possibly with support or mentoring.
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Applications for this Milestone must describe how the candidate acted in the role of Data Scientist on a Data Science engagement or project that met its acceptance criteria. Meeting acceptance criteria means that a validated model that solved the problem was accepted or adopted by the business.
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This milestone badge is open to all applicants. There is no requirement for any previous qualification.