Going Pro in Data Science: What It Takes to Succeed as a Professional Data Scientist

by Jerry Overton

59 pages, ebook

Published March 1, 2016

About the author

Jerry Overton is head of Advanced Analytics Research in CSC’s ResearchNetwork and the founder of CSC’s FutureTense initiative.

Jerry has established big-data-driven decision making as a foundation of CSC research.

Jerry’s research in applied predictive modeling has led to advances in predicting the adoption and diffusion of emerging technologies; simulating market reaction to new disruptive technologies; and discovering optimal business partnerships and product development strategies. His expertise in predictive modeling and applied mathematics has made an impact throughout CSC: defining the technical direction for CSC offerings, finding strategic opportunities and teaching predictive modeling to other CSC technologists.

Jerry lead a consortium of aerospace and defense companies in developing simulations of distributed fault tolerance for the U.S. Military’s Future Combat System.

Reviews

[Esteban · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting, actionable, but ultimately shallow.

[Michael O'Flaherty · Rating 5 out of 5]

I appreciate a book like this. It provides a quick overview with some wisdom and wit. Not deep, but deep enough for an amateur like me to go looking for more. So, if I spoke with the author, I am sure he would say "mission accomplished."

[Andrew Saul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short and useful. This is less a book and more collection of related and expanded blog posts.
I enjoyed it thoroughly and gots lots of ideas and concepts to take away from it.
It helped me generate some new ideas of my own for work and personal projects.
The author gets into the nuts and bolts of how his teams do data science projects and what has and hasn't worked well for them.