2 posts tagged with "Data Science"

I think I can….​

I’ve recently been working on getting my Data Science Certificate from NAIT, which is a local polytechnic school.  In one of our classes our instructor gave us the Titanic competition from Kaggle to experience what an end-to-end machine learning project is like.  It has been frustrating, challenging, sometimes daunting, but yet super helpful.  Even now, a week after the class I am still working on my model trying to get the accuracy higher and improve my ranking on the Leaderboard.  And still wondering how on earth so many people got 100% accuracy?

Data Science has become a massive buzz term in recent years.  In fact, being a Data Scientist was called the “Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” by the Harvard Business Review in 2012. But what does that mean and what does it exactly entail?