I’ve invited Alyssa Columbus, a Data Scientist at Pacific Life, to share her insights and lessons learned on breaking into the field of data science and launching a career there. Earning a job in data science, especially your first job in data science, isn’t easy, especially given the surplus of analytics job-seekers to analytics jobs. Many people are looking to break into data science, from undergraduates to career changers, have asked me how I’ve attained my current data science position at Pacific Life. Using data mining techniques to analyze all open positions in the U.S., the following list of the top 10 data science skills was created today. When building your data science portfolio, select and complete projects that qualify you for the data science jobs, you’re the most interested in.

Source: Forbes April 14, 2019 19:30 UTC