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Data Scientist Profiles
An example of a data scientist profile of one of the students in our class
What were you thinking when you made us do those data scientist profiles?
I had four primary reasons for going through that exercise:
Reason 1: Cultivating self-awareness
Reason 2: Illustrate importance of standardization in visualization
I wanted to demonstrate standardizing visualizations of individuals as a mix of characteristics. (You should think about how you might do it, and then also ask yourself whether you think a standardized visualization has any value.) In this particular case
(a) standardizing the x-axis: I used the main buckets that I thought were approximately some of the skills one needs as a data scientist. I’m not tied to these